If you’ve ever been a leader chances are you’ve encountered a time when you need to make a change.
Most often change does not come about naturally; it is forced by some event. Especially in business.
Like when you get a flat tire.
The one you had was working fine. It keep going round and round.
Until all of a sudden it just stopped working.
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Sometimes you really fuck up.
Unless you’ve lived a very cautious and measured life you’ve likely made dozens of mistakes. It’s also very likely that you’ve really fucked something up.
You’re only human. You’re not perfect.
And unfortunately it’s likely you’ll really fuck up again before life’s all said and done.
The thing with making a mistake or really fucking up is that 99% of the time you can recover. You can deal with the carnage you’ve created; you can correct your actions, fix the mistake and or reconcile with those who you’ve hurt.
It’s not easy and since this world is more often about what you do after you really fuck up that matters, you’ve really got to do things right in order to chart a course towards improving whatever situation you’ve put yourself in.
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Greatness.
It’s something many strive for. It’s something few ever achieve.
The difference between those who do and those who don’t is relatively simple; great ones do it every day.
Do what you ask?
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Every organization and every role within it has the button.
You were shown how to press the button when you were hired. If you started your own company you probably created the button.
You were given responsibility for pressing the button. You love pushing the button.
You are fasicnated by the button; how it works, the way it looks and the result it produces.
You press the button everyday. Eventually it becomes your day.
That’s when your problems begin.
The moment you go from thinking about how the button works, the way it looks and the results it produces and simply start pressing it,is the moment you leave yourself vulnerable.
Vulnerable to being replaced by software that automates the pushing of the button. Vulnerable to the person who can press the button more efficiently.
Even worse, vulnerable a competitor who can come out of no where with a better to “press the button.”
It doesn’t have to end like this, though. You have a choice.
Rather than simply pressing the button, go back to where you once were. The place were you started pressing the button.
Start thinking about how the button works. Why you are pressing the button.
And most importantly what you can do to make pressing the button more efficient and effective.
Never stop.
Otherwise you’ll find yourself looking back and saying, “Doh!”
