Let me make a suggestion I recently offered to a really good leadership team.
Why don’t you get together around a campfire or your outdoor/rooftop bar of choice. Pour a few drinks and shoot the shit for awhile. Get curious. Talk about what’s working and what’s not. Be open to others ideas. Be real and raw. Argue. Challenge. Make it safe and make it a little scary too.
You see, leader, most innovations come when teammates get away from work and get after it. Kinda like those Apple engineers who challenged Steve, you’ll get your stuff together away from the office. You’ll get the courage and conviction to fight to improve performance, not prove a point. Collins was right – Good is the enemy of great. Good teams have a good idea or two and stick to their knitting. Great ones change, rethink, evolve, and oftentimes fight more amongst themselves than against competitors. Great teams fight the status quo. Great leaders oftentimes start fights with curious questions and an open mind (even if they drop an f bomb or two along the way). Guilty as charged…
Great teams fight to improve performance, not prove a point. How ‘bout your team? Are you valuing false harmony over good, productive fights? Are you stirring the pot yourselves or waiting for the market to make it a necessity? Slow down. Reflect. Maybe it’s time you started a (van) fight to improve performance, not prove a point. What do you believe?
Live hard. Love ❤️ harder. Fight for it…
BUILT TO LEAD 