Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Has it ever crossed your mind?
Loyalty. Organizational loyalty. The loyalty you show. The loyalty you receive.
And even if, for what ever reason, you question your current loyalty, where else would you go to find it?
Catch 22, isn’t it?
Here’s a provocative perspective from a business contact from LinkedIn.
Click here to read David Noer’s blog post: The Necessary Paradox of Cautious Loyalty.
Want a tip to help you resist the urge to wait? In a moment, I’ll share what happened last month, what I did about it, and how it impacted my leadership philosophy.
But it’s a double edge sword isn’t it? If consistency is the hallmark of quality, and continuous improvement is the key to becoming world class, how do you balance risk and reward?
Faced with a opportunity to do something the way I’ve always done it, or a way I’ve been dreaming about but always chicken out, I was once again presented the opportunity, but was afraid I’d pass on it again.
But not this time. Finally choose the way I had envisioned.
It was amazingly exhilarating! Why? Which is a good question because the thing I did differently, was actually very small in the big scheme of things.
Then why was it exhilarating? Because conquering a small fear builds the confidence to conquer another small fear.
Eventually, the fears that get conquered are bigger and bigger, until we are faced with very little fear that we can’t act on.
Well, we will always come across scary things, but the confidence to confront and conquer is a priceless ROI for small risk taking habit.
The key, the simple tip – “Do at least one thing each day that scares you.”
Note: I’m talking to the person in the mirror. Please don’t take this personally.
The reason you wait is because you are afraid. You are afraid because you are unsure of yourself. You are unsure of yourself because:
Like I said, please don’t take this personally, I’m only talking to the person in the mirror. Ya with me?
“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.” — Marie von Ebner Eschenbach
Early in my Fortune 100 career, there was a new assignment which required that I move and inherit an existing, high-performing team.
And even though they knew much more about how things ran, they still wanted me to help them improve. They brought dozens of creative ideas.
I was on a huge learning curve and loving every minute of it. However, you know what happened?
Nothing.
Being insanely busy, and blindly disorganized, none of their ideas moved forward. I was overwhelmed and didn’t even know it.
Crazy thing though, I thought things were actually getting better, because their ideas started to dwindle, but not because things got better.
Even crazier, they thought, “Don’t go to Jeff, he won’t do anything.”
Wished they would have argued with me, “Why aren’t you helping us?” Instead, they dodged.
And who could blame them?
How does a person or an organization become world class, and stay world class? Here are four tips to do just that. First, however we need to state the obvious:
It’s a double edge sword isn’t it? If consistency is the hallmark or quality, and continuous improvement is the key to becoming (and sustaining) world class status, how do you balance risk and reward?
Let’s use this example from yesterday.
As a professional speaker, there are several goals for every presentation:
Let’s review from a different angle, what you just read:
The second set of bullet points states the common sense theories that we all nod our heads in agreement when we hear them.
The first set illustrates how I internalized these common sense things to make them work for my particular role in the business world.
Now it’s your turn. Take the four common sense bullet points and make them your own. Tomorrow, I’ll share how practicing what I preach led to an amazing result.
You don’t have to any of this. And maybe that’s a leader’s biggest challenge, doing what’s easier rather than what’s harder. So here’s a fifth tip – being world class means out working your competition. Most people hate to admit this. And then they wonder why they aren’t world class.