-- Wayne Dyer,
As a leader, I don’t believe there is any more powerful understanding than to recognize the power to take responsibility for your actions (or inactions when appropriate).
Failure to decide, reacting instead of being proactive, or waiting for others to act, is not something a successful leader can get away with. Ultimately you are responsible.
Having failed to heed the warning of one of my former employees, I quickly realized his comments about the previous General Sales Manager at the station when he interviewed me, weren’t just an indicator of his blame mentality, it was a permanent flaw in his character.
As leaders we must be objective in evaluating the performance of others. In his case, his consistent approach to blame, were a pattern making the work environment toxic and for a culture inspired by fear.
NEVER CRITICIZE
Here are three good reasons to never criticize:
Take Responsibility. This video sums up why blaming others doesn’t help, and how to blame yourself, and accept responsibility.
ELIMINATE BLAME/CRITICISM - WHY
“It is impossible to say something good about someone else without making yourself feel better in the process. Likewise, it is impossible to say something bad about someone else without making yourself feel worse.”
~Brian Tracy, The Psychology of Achievement
Were you aware of this? It’s been said if you focus on what others do well, compliment and recognize them, soon they’ll be so busy doing good, they won’t have time to mess up or make mistakes.
If you realized when you find the good in others, recognizing them, you not only make them feel better, but make yourself feel better, soon both you and your people will feel so good it will seem impossible to fail.
Growth demands Strategic Discipline.
Discipline sustains momentum, over a long period of time, laying the foundations for lasting endurance.
A winning habit starts with 3 Strategic Disciplines: Priority, Metrics and Meeting Rhythms.
Meeting Rhythms achieve a disciplined focus on performance metrics to drive growth.
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Several weeks ago in Find Your White Space - Key Attribution Framework we explored how to differentiate your business in the marketplace. Next blog, we’ll share one contractors decision to do one thing exceptional, and why 3-5 key differentiators can be better than being the best.