Firstly, reading about your Datsun 240K was like ready my own story. Same switches, same rattles, same tyres. It was my pride and joy while I was a part time waiter.

What you are saying here really resonates with me. My team have spent so many years proclaiming our amazing abilities to find solutions to our business’s problems that we lost site of our own backyard. We are out of alignment with what we preach. Time for a service I think.

Thanks for the great info.
Keep up the good work.

Cheers
Lyndon

Great thoughts and thank you. This really resonated with some work I am doing at the moment with a client who is experiencing growing pains. Have you read Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish? He provides 3 very simple habits that I think fit well here.

1. Priorities – every org anisation or team should have 5 top priorities and 1 top of 5 priorities. Success can only come with focus. Every individual then needs to be aligned to those goals.

2. Data – does the team or organisation have specific data to track progress and is it avaliable for use regularly?

3. Rythm – Does the organisation have an effective rythm of daily, weekly , monthly , quarterly and annual meeting to align everyone and drive accountability.

The overriding thing that lays on top of this is a set of core value to live by

Thanks for a great blog!

Cheers
Jacki

As a wise colleague of mine used to warn me – if you are travelling from Sydney to Melbourne and you are one degree off-track, you’ll end up in Adelaide. Great city – wrong destination.

I would add to your first point by saying that only once leaders have viscerally aligned themselves to the organisation’s strategic intent (vision, mission, values), then and only then should the wider organisation be invited to participate.

One of the greatest sources of ‘cultural cancer’ I come up against is when the staff of a company, who are making every attempt to demonstrate the desired leadership behaviours, complain bitterly about hypocritical bosses with double standards.

It’s a big, chewy topic. Thanks for inviting me in.

How about getting that wonderful and mutual buddy of ours Don (DCW) in for his opinion? There is so much we can learn from him.

Best, and congratulations on your excellent blog.

Robin

Seriously though. The way alot of organizations go is just like you put it: “glib clichés on the company website.” The only way those become reality is if the organizations leaders step up to the plate and actually “lead by example” in living those values.

Great post,

-Kyle