Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Leadership Is Like Training A Puppy.
Most people don’t know how to do it.
They think they do, but they don’t.
It’s simply a fact of life.
Many books, blogs and You Tube videos explain how to do both.
But there is very little shared – why this stuff doesn’t work.
Yesterday was an awesome day.
How was yours?
Everyday should be an awesome day, even the ones that pin us down and make it difficult to breath.
Why?
Because that’s the way life works.
Pretending it doesn’t is foolish.
Don’t be an educated fool.
You hear it on the streets everyday. And in the workplace hallways and break rooms. You hear it in the daily commute. It’s everywhere. It’s pessimistic. It’s pathetic.
But it brings people joy, I think, to wallow in their misery.
Leaders are struggling, everywhere you look. And this has the ripple effect on the people they lead, and it becomes this vicious cycle. So everyone tries to work harder, but people are so confused, they don’t even know where they are heading anymore.
I recently overheard an apparent leader talk about Twitter, Blogs, You Tube and other social media tools, like they understood it.
Has it gotten so bad in the struggle to survive, that many smart, dedicated people are now becoming professionally clueless?
Many of you are waiting for the economy to pick up, before you’re willing to work harder and more creatively than in your entire life. Meanwhile, you complain about your situation.
We’re human. These things happen. But why?
Work with me here. When I’m at the track doing speed work and it’s a windy day, I insist on running into the wind. My times will be slower which isn’t as motivating as seeing the wind-aided times.
When doing road work, every time there’s a hill, I run faster up the hill than down. At the gym, no runner works harder on their core than me.
Why? Because the long way is the short cut.
When race day comes, guess who’s the most prepared?
One of the challenges with our business world is that the people who are capable of decision making are not capable of keeping up with technology. Many reasons for this, and it really doesn’t even matter.
Yet the people who keep up with technology and understand it’s potential, particularly with social media, are not in decision-making positions.
This forms an unfortunate paradox.
Every once in a while there are exceptions to the rule. I planted a seed with a fellow midlife runner on our Saturday run. Not sure he got it. Or that he can even remotely consider it.
Sooner, rather than later, this will create an opportunity point. Or not. And so it goes. Life. Hard decision. Risks. Boundary pushing.
But the potential rewards are enormous. Gigantic.
This is one of my favorite things about running. And about life.
