The truth is crisp, clean, and oftentimes has an antiseptic kinda sting to it. You and your team need a cleansing sting a bit more often. Kinda hurts to hear, doesn’t it. Truth is bitter and sweet. Here’s one about you and your team. Your team is not defined by the words you put on posters, walls, or iPads. Your team is not defined by the beliefs you espouse.Your team is defined by the behaviors it allows, condones, encourages, and disciplines. Fact.
You are defined by your behaviors. Healthy humans author their deeply held beliefs and align behaviors accordingly. They close their own integrity gaps when they say one thing and do another. Healthy cultures do likewise. Few leaders take the time to routinely, rigorously, and uniformly align beliefs and behaviors. Few. Few leaders have the nerve for fixing their cultures alignment issues. Few feel they’ve earned the right. Few, truth be told, want to take responsibility for their own culture much less their company’s. So, when putting together your next presentation, remember if you want the “posters in the people,” you can’t be a poser – you gotta be THE poster.
Are you?
BUILT TO LEAD 