"I am repeatedly blamed for not being strategic enough." This executive’s boss continually says: You do not spend enough time looking at the overall picture … you are too operational … you need to adopt a strategic perspective … you must spend more time studying our competitors and understanding our customer more deeply. Ouch. Here is how to make this a lot better.
Most executives will not admit that their behaviors could be perceived as subversive; they may sincerely not realize that they are. What are people complaining about in company hallways? This article by Hervé Da Costa discusses the key reasons for those behaviors and how to begin to address them to elicit real positive change — Everybody Wins.
In my book What Color Is Your Sky?, I introduce the concept of living on the green curve, a resilient, focused, proactive way of living daily. Learning and perfecting specific life skills and attitudes can be a game-changer. In particular, I encourage you to read and practice the Deliberate Morning Program.
This implies that, over time, you learn from hardship and persist. How can you suffer real setbacks and not falter? During these times of anxiety and deep change, what helps people ultimately bounce back? Find out how resilience at work can literally save lives.
“More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person’s level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails. That’s true in the cancer ward, it’s true in the Olympics, and it’s true in the boardroom.” — Dean Becker, president, and CEO of Adaptive Learning Systems.
Resilience can be learned. I recently read an excellent article from Harvard Business Review: “How Resilience Works,” by Diane Coutu, director of client communications at Banyan Family Business Advisors, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which introduces 3 characteristics that may reinforce this:
Face and accept reality: Resilient people have down-to-earth views that matter for survival. Pushing for a sense of possibility is powerful, but for longer or bigger challenges, a grounded sense of reality is far more important. Ask yourself: “Do I truly understand—and accept—the reality of my situation? Does my organization?”
Search for meaning: Reframing your situation and seeking a deeper meaning to what is happening can mean the difference between giving up and hanging in there, believing in a better-constructed future. The reference book on this matter is Viktor Frankl’s book Man’s Search for Meaning. I encourage you to spend time clarifying your personal purpose and that of your company’s.
Become a bricoleur: Keep bouncing back by doing the most with what you have. You may need to improvise solutions from thin air. This calls for agility, positivity, and enthusiasm.
Are you facing serious transformational challenges in your company? If you are, simply drop me a line at sky@herve.com.
À présent, voyons les 5 étapes qui permettent de créer des résultats rapidement dans votre vie. Ceci commence par l’utilisation de méthodes de réussite spécifiques et éprouvées afin de vous aider jour après jour. Cela pourrait vous chambouler un peu, mais vous commencerez à voir que vous allez dans la bonne direction. Déterminé? Déterminée?
Coming out of the crisis successfully requires three fundamental factors: proper anticipation, conscious risk taking, and high coordination, more than ever. The question becomes: who can anticipate and plan with you effectively? And can you, together, analyze at deeper levels than usual, how to orchestrate the process of going back to a new world.
As you start the year, the key question is: How do you plan and design your activities so this becomes one of your most satisfying years ever? Most people make a list of urgent and important things and call it an action plan. In reality, this ends up being nothing more than a long to-do list, one based on fear, hope and duty and not on designing success.
Parfois, vos actions n’entraînent pas les résultats attendus, et vous commencez à vous sentir découragé. Les défis du quotidien peuvent aussi influencer négativement votre attitude, votre enthousiasme et vos émotions. Pour vous en sortir, il faut changer d’état d’esprit et ne pas vous embourber dans le découragement car cela peut vous faire sombrer dans la spirale de la passivité déprimante ou le fatalisme. Pour retrouver une certaine sérénité, il vous faut souvent repenser la situation afin que vous puissiez passer à l’action, trouver des solutions et faire en sorte que les choses avancent. Ces recommandations vous paraîtront simples voire simplistes, en fait elles peuvent être redoutablement efficaces. Il s'agit ici de trouver le centre de l'orage, l'oeil du cyclone mental. C'est l'un des buts essentiels de la pratique du mindfulness.
In many countries September is one of the most frantic months of the year. You may be back from a well-deserved vacation but email and requests for your undivided attention have been piling up. You may have taken your vacation earlier and enjoyed the slower pace of August. Now everyone is back and catching up.
Sometimes your actions do not yield the results you want and discouragement kicks in. Getting out of it is about shifting your state of mind and not staying stuck in it. It is about reframing the situation so you can get back to action, finding solutions and making things happen for you.
