I’ve been very fortunate over the last five decades to work with many of the best leaders and organizations in business, service. and education. I’ve found that the best in these different fields implement the same principle.
They have clarity that drives their actions. When you are on a mission with a vision you won’t give up when faced with challenges. It’s essential that everyone in the organization is clear on the vision and mission and knows how they can contribute to it.
Their Culture drives expectations and beliefs. Expectation and beliefs drive behaviors. Behaviors drive habits. Habits create the future. If you want the fruit you must invest in the root. Culture is the root. Culture creates sustained success.
They do ordinary things better than everyone else. Success is all about the fundamentals.
They are mentally stronger. Through adversity their belief is greater than their circumstance. They take the actions necessary to create positive results.
They overcome their fear of failure. Everyone has fear but the best thing is to overcome it. They don’t allow it to control, limit or paralyse them from taking action. The greatest success strategy is to focus on the love of what you are doing instead of fearing the outcome.
They build great relationships and teams. No one creates success alone. We all need a team to accomplish something great. The best leaders and team utilise the 4 Cs . They communicate, connect, commit and care.
They transform negativity . They feed positive and weed the negative. One person can’t make a team but one person can break a team.
They think like rookies and overcome the curse of experience. They don’t expect a bad outcome because it happened before. They don’t long for the good ole days. They work hard, believe anything is possible and create the good old days right now. They innovate, adapt and turn challenges into growth opportunities.
They care more. In a world where most don’t care those who care stand out and perform better. They put more time and energy into their product, design, service, and/or craft.
Let’s make the organisation we represent as one of the best and enjoy its positive results.