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Why Settle When It’s Not Necessary?

The only limitations you have are those you impose upon yourself.

Struggling to achieve, sustain, and enhance a vibrant business excellence culture?

Challenged to create a vibrant business excellence culture where at least 80% of your leaders are rated by employees as very good or excellent at balancing the business chain of excellence?

Challenged to create a vibrant business excellence culture where at least 51% of your leaders are rated by employees as excellent at connecting all the dots – leaders-employees-customers-brand-innovation?

Do you have a personal conviction that good and very good aren’t good enough?

Do you understand the dramatic difference between an excellent business chain ripple effect and its ability to get excellent results, compared to a very good ripple effect getting very good results and a good ripple effect getting good results?

Can you articulate the difference between a good chain and an excellent chain; and the difference between a very good chain and an excellent chain?

If you can, and i’m assuming you can, why would you settle?

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Detouring To Wonder Why

To wonder why?

Detour.

A different route to get somewhere; usually unplanned, unexpected, often scary and inconvenient.

What if we detoured in our journey to understand, and practice, the world-class, Organizational Vibrancy key drivers required to become and stay a remarkably successful business enterprise?

The “what if” usually has an ending sounding like this, “I’ll never know?”

Why?

Because it’s safer, more convenient, and easier to manage the unexpected and unplanned if we just get back to the job at hand, which is to maintain the current level of operational efficiency.

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How Will You Feel When You Pick One Of Only Three Choices?

Worth it to pursue world-class Organizational Vibrancy?

How will you feel if you try yet fail?

How will you feel if you never try?

How will you feel if you try and succeed?

The math says we have to try in order to succeed. But nothing is guaranteed. So the math also says trying inherently comes with the probability of failing.

Without the comfort of living with failure, success will never be ours.

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Busy Doing Nothing

Being good at doing things well is often seen as success.

Really?

Think about it.

Yes, we are good at things.

But are we good at the right things?

Who’s coaching us about business excellence priorities?

Who’s holding us accountable?

And what if our boss is in the same boat as us?

What if our boss has business excellence priorities that we are good at delivering on, but what if all of us are focused on lower level priorities?

What if we are the boss? What if we’re passing this on down to our direct reports?

The business excellence mission critical stuff, often the soft stuff, is left alone because it’s too hard to see and measure improvement.

It’s analogous to trying to lose weight instead of trying to lower our resting heart rate, our cholesterol, BMI, and triglycerides.

There are a lot of fake business excellence problems in our world. Fake problems are issues we spend time managing that have disproportionate value to more important priorities.

Fake problems are convenient for medicating our lack of a clear, concise, and compelling vision.

Organizational health (and personal health) is priority one.

Never get bored with the basics.

Spend time doing nothing.

Quiet time, void of distractions, void of deadlines, meetings, initiatives.

Spend time there and you’ll be astonished, if you really open your heart, at what you can accomplish when you’re busy doing nothing.

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Said Another Way…Not Magic, Work

It’s not the Magic that makes it work, it’s the work that makes it Magic.

Mary Flynn said this and immediately i knew it was profound.

Colleague Mary Flynn and i often co-facilitated four-day Disney Institute Professional Development Programs at Walt Disney World. Mary was a writer for Hallmark greeting cards at one time. She had a beautiful way with words. She gifted the class, and me, that day in a profound way.

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