Here’s a tendency most system’s struggle coming to grips with – they don’t suffer from a lack of education, they suffer from a lack of doing. We all know the craziness surrounding the recent catastrophe at the University of Missouri. The system’s response is predictable and funny to me. I don’t know the details but what I do know is the system has reacted with an emphasis to better educate the students and administrators. They want to treat this problem as if it’s a problem rooted in a lack of education. There will be new and improved classes on diversity and the like.
The real problem is not education. The real problem comes down to a lack of doing. Think about it.
Today, in practice 158, a team of krazies learned a great deal. They learn everytime we’re together. They do not suffer from a lack of education. If your eyes have made it to this blog, you most likely have received plenty of education both formal and informal. When you honestly look at the roots of your personal struggles, it’s highly unlikely it’s rooted in a lack of education. You and I most struggle from a lack of doing.
The time for you to commit to PA (productive action) is not after the national spotlight comes your way or some segment of your workforce decides to put you on notice. The time for you to do something is now – in the moment after receiving the first bit of feedback that change is needed in your behavior or the culturally accepted behaviors under your leadership. Just do it. Your real problem is most likely not that you need one more piece of analytics, one more course, or another degree of some sort. Your problem comes down to a lack of doing.
You choose. Your choices have consequences. Like Kit Carson coined so long ago, I hope you learned something from this little rant and I hope you make it a “done so.”
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