This blog assumes that blind spots of power come with the CEO role no matter how good or true or well-intended you are. You can't afford to have them. So I give reminders of what I have seen in my experience to help you see. Or try to see. Monday morning practical tips will help you sharpen up and see what tweaks you and your blind spot. A little whack on the side of the head with your Monday morning coffee.
Sunday, January 5, 2014
THE EXCITEMENT OF BEING STEADFAST
New Year's carries the fenzied excitement for the new that I don't trust.
Especially in business right now.
Shallow new instead of deep innovation.
Anyway, I want to speak up for steadfastness to the point of boredom.
Absolutely one of the best companies I worked for and with was noted
by Wall Street analysts as "boring".
It was steadfast.
It set a course.
It held the course.
It completed the course.
It set a course.
It held the course.
It completed the course.
Yawn, yawn, yawn.
Consistent, incremental positive results over time.
Oh to be excited by that much boredom.
Your company is yearning for it.
There has been so much "world class", "best in class" only to end up "bottom of the class".
Fresh starts, kick starts, new ways, my way or the highway.
Design, re-design.
Upscale, up level, upstart.
You've got people living in perpetual transition, neither here nor there.
Setting the course may be the hardest thing you'll ever do.
But boy is there power in the steadfastness of staying the course.
Aim for a little boredom.
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