Leadership: For Better Or Worse

While you are undoubtedly familiar with that portion of the traditional wedding vow that pertains to your commitment to your spouse for “better or worse”, does the leadership of your organization uphold the same level of commitment to their leadership roles?

Legendary football coach Lou Holtz who led his teams to many championships is widely known for his practice of constantly reminding his team that “You’re either getting better or getting worse. Nothing stays the same.”

The concept of where your organization or yourself as an individual “stand today” lies entirely in the context of what direction you are moving. Your organization, its leadership and yourself are all progressively day by day either moving forward toward mission and goal achievement (better) or are moving backward and losing ground to both performance and goal achievement (worse).

As I so often remind the leaders whom I’m privileged to work with…”Neither time nor the marketplace will afford you the opportunity to remain where you are.”

Your organization exists in a rapidly changing business and economic environment. The very moment that you pause or become complacent in your daily efforts, you begin the move backward. If your organization is simply maintaining the same level of productivity and results, then you are in essence still moving backward, because your competition is in turn is going to zoom right past you.

Another municipality will gladly garner your tourism dollars and attract visitors to their town. If you are a for-profit business, then one of your competitors will be glad to take away your customer and make the sale.

The ability of your organization and its leadership to continually move forward rests solely on the organization’s commitment for “better or worse”. If you are truly committed to a process for the ongoing develop of your leadership at all levels of your organization, your organization will find itself better prepared to sustain its forward progress.

Martin Luther King said that “The time is always right to do what is right.” The fall training season will soon be here and now is the right time to schedule your organization’s fall edition of The Leadership Academy.

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