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.
Monday, January 30, 2017
ARE YOU HAPPY? WE NEED HAPPY CEO'S
As you drill down to get granular to control the bottom line (pardon my business babble) things can get grim. Punishing sales budgets. Grim. Anxious to be perfect Board Meetings? Grim.
Grinding along meetings focused on the present, not the future? Grim
How on earth to be happy? Start by:
—letting enough extraneous thoughts, topics and interests into the room so that you can find human humor
—steppping back and acknowledge some of the absurdity that goes on
—telingl the goofy stories of the past
—getting over yourself--Ceo's aren't that important!
—enjoying and allowing the funny person on your team to be funny with no disparagement about not being serious enough about the business
—letting the atmosphere be social while being productive
—starting with being happy yourself regardless of situations; then you will be contagious
Happiness is good energy. Hopeful energy. Contagious energy. Optimistic energy. Energy that gives an extra boost to do what seems impossible. Grim doesn't make work work.
One of the things I most remember is the laughter of the Executive Committee. It kept a kind of lightness and carbonation in the atmosphere that often needed it to make the tough decisions.
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