What scares us most? What do employees, managers, owners and even customers fear the most in your business? No it’s not public speaking, although I understand that leads the parade of most feared things personally. Rather it is change! Apparitions, Biblical passages of the Apocalypse, terrorist attacks, global warming, death and even gas prices are probably not as fearful to our business as the word change. Who Moved My Cheesedescribed this and offered many ideas on why change is good and why we need to embrace and be proactive in supporting change.
Strategic Discipline Blog
In Verne Harnish’s Mastering the Rockefeller Habits he has a quote from American philosopher, architect, and inventor,Buckminster Fuller, “If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”
Topics: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
Two keys to being a good leader are the ability to predict and delegate. As your business grows, in order for you to be able to spend more time focusing on the growth and strategic areas of your business, you and your managers need to develop in these two key areas. If your key managers don’t know how to function well in these areas, face it, the ability for you to remove yourself from key functions and decisions in the business will be severely limited.
Topics: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits