Yesterday, I reminded a young man of the BTL melody line. I walked him through the 28 page document that breaks down the complex work of BTL into three big buckets. OPUS, PoP, and sCORE. He had seen this before and had even completed pieces of it, namely his opus.
He had asked me a question to begin our practice. The question was how does he get more people fired up about the company opus.
The answer wasn’t what he thought it would be, until he was forced to really think about it. Funny, huh.
The answer is always to author your own and then align it, at least to some degree, with those in power. It doesn’t take perfect alignment, it takes just enough.
I told him the story of 13 colonies, a common enemy, a revolutionary spirit, and a cool overarching vision. These 13 colonies didn’t agree on much. They experienced massive doses of “vision collision.” They kept fighting for freedom, fighting with each other, fighting with the enemy, and slowly, slowly, slowly, finding their way forward. They agreed just enough. They found their common ground, the fight for freedom, and overly focused their attention on what they shared instead of what they lacked.
Want to improve the culture in your place of work? Author your OPUS and begin to live it out in your “twenty square feet.” Find your common ground with those in power and focus your attention there. Be the number 1 colony when it comes to your production and when people ask you how you’re doing it, humbly share your way. Very cool.
The great experiment only lives on if Y.O.U. have the courage to fight for your OPUS by popping it out with discipline. Keep “planking” cause your core has got to be strong. In fact your core needs to be your sCORE.
Yea, baby…
BUILT TO LEAD 