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DO SOMETHING!

Written by: Harvey Schiller

Article Overview: Lack of confidence throughout an organization immobilizes and discourages, diverting energy from important tasks and wasting time and resources. To create the burning desire to win leaders must mobilize and engage the organization.

DO SOMETHING!

If you sit around devising elegant and complex strategies and then try to execute them through a series of flawless decisions – you’re doomed!

It won’t be because the strategies are necessarily incorrect but because the organization is hesitating, failing to take decisive action and make things that are supposed to happen, happen.

Leaders, managers and organizations can become immobilized by perfectionism, fear, anxiety and the result…….very little actually gets done. What must be instilled within the organization is a “can do” spirit with the supporting structure, systems and processes that reinforces the notion that with enough creativity and determination the organization can accomplish the mission and achieve the desired results even if the strategy and the execution is not perfect. The very act of doing something creates momentum and with a focus on achieving small incremental wins the organization will mobilize itself for eventual success.

Lack of confidence throughout an organization immobilizes and discourages enthusiasm and energy, creating bottle-necks and self-imposed obstacles. Paradoxically, this lack of confidence can manifest into a focus on activity over results, diverting energy from the important tasks and wasting time and resources with little being accomplished. So there is a caveat here; “do something” and ensure that it creates value and drives to and contributes to the accomplishment of the desired results and mission.

To create that burning desire to win and do something, leaders must –

Set a personal example

• Mobilize and engage the energy of the organization through constant communication
• Be visible
• Provide assurance, direction and support
• Monitor the conditions and progress

Create the support systems

• Design the organizational structure to facilitate the company’s key processes
• Establish the management processes for identifying and overcoming barriers and obstacles
• Put in controls that flag deviations to desired performance and results
• Re-organize human resource management and systems for selection, reward, development and motivation
• Embed employee education programs and training to create valuable contributors that can adapt to change and adopt improvement initiatives

The “Do Something Work Plan” –

What is the long term vision for the organization?

What are the key opportunities for action?

What are the concrete things that can be undertaken to create a sense of momentum and forward movement?

What are the structures and processes that must be created as support systems and to provide a sense of stability?

What are the short-term milestones?

How will the energy and talents of the organization be mobilized?

What is being done to ensure the visibility of the leaders?

Never lose sight of the ultimate goal, focus energy on short-term wins and most importantly……… DO SOMETHING!

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Article Tags: accomplishment, bottle necks, burning desire, caveat, creativity, decisions, decisive action, desired results, execution, fear anxiety, lack of confidence, li li, momentum, notion, obstacles, perfectionism, personal example, structure systems, supporting structure, wasting time
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