Category: Common Sense, Not Common

One big goal of great company orientation programs is…

Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom
Culture is an organization’s greatest asset

 

The goal of great company orientation programs is to have the instructor tell emotional stories about how cool the culture is. Know why?

Given the choice between working in a cool, exciting culture, and one that isn’t, which would you pick?

Personal, emotional, real stories from someone who was in the operation yesterday and is going back tomorrow, well, it’s as authentic as it gets. 

At the end of the day, we want new employees to have an emotional attachment and a pride – one that they will defend throughout their entire career. 

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The reality of a busy world shouldn’t tempt us to use it as a crutch

Going the extra inch to help a Family heal
Christine asked me to take these flowers to work the next day

 

The reality of a busy world shouldn’t tempt us to use it as a crutch. Our job as leaders, and we are all leaders, is to find a way to thrive no matter the circumstances.

And we may fail. In fact, odds are we will.

And this is where our real leadership can surface.

Will we allow ourselves to live and operate in the failed state, or do we redouble (for however long it takes) our efforts to “take the hill“?

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