SNIPPETS OF WISDOM

Snippets of wisdom  

In every business process there should be markers which, whether you scan them daily, twice or more times per week, should enable you to judge whether the company is operating within its set production, service and or profitability targets.

There are some decisions that managers can and should “sleep” on – others require immediate and firm action. If you neglect the latter, and more often than not these are those so called petty/minor/seemingly insignificant challenges, it creates more of the same and will create havoc between your markers - eventually creating conditions where managing even the small elements creates a crisis. Constant crisis management then becomes the norm and leaves no time for strategic planning, visualization, and creating new ideas and blueprints.

Managers do – checking - crisis management – policing of staff etc. (among other things).

Leaders know and embrace their strengths as well as their weakness and they employ competent people who can support and help them develop these weaknesses to strengths. Leaders are people orientated – they develop teams.

They are single-minded, stubborn, and even unreasonable at times – they take risks – they fail – but then they regroup and simply start again.

Leaders think first and constantly – they listen – they create pictures – they present these to enlist voluntary buy-in from staff who, is then empowered, trusted and rewarded with the space and freedom to manage the various elements within the big picture.

The result – almost always is – success and dynamic growth within the business. Staff members become intrapreneur’s and part and parcel of that big picture. I call it win-win for short!

I conclude - Never ever, when I am quiet, still, sitting and apparently doing absolutely zero - zilch, think that I am wasting time doing nothing. I am busy with strategic thinking, planning, visualizing, and creating. Perhaps you should try some yourself.

And if you absolutely have to butt in - stop, quiet down - compose yourself and then, and only then - approach …