Unbreakable Law of Teams

Most of our challenges in life arrive from our inability to relate and achieve cooperation between our fellow humans. Related to successful businesses, the fundamental focus is on how we can find and integrate individuals that produce meaningful results as effortlessly as possible.

Get It Right Early
If you build your organisation correctly, one of the first requirements is that of finding “your place in the world”.  In other words your strategic direction.  Your reason for being.  Your vision, your mission, and values.  Most organisations should start this way.  Sadly few do.  The next step should revolve around who gets to sit on “the bus.” For once we have the right people on board, the resource draining challenge of how to inspire and manage people largely dissipates.

The Price of Leadership

There is a general misconception that leadership is all about the power, benefits, and personal perks that come with holding a higher position within an organisation. Not so.

Giving Up Your Personal Time
The first casualty of true leadership is your own personal space and time.  The greater your level of responsibility, the greater is the personal price that you have to pay well in advance without any guarantee of results. This is why there are so few leaders.  And that’s ok.  For sometimes the price that needs to be paid is too high in relation to one’s values.

Committed 100%, Not 99%!
When leaders are fully engaged and focused, it becomes easier for people to follow them down a clear and pre-determined path.  The opposite also holds true.  When leaders are not committed and of the opinion that they need to do very little because somehow they think that they have arrived, then their days as a leader are numbered.

Eliminating Business Bottlenecks

Identify The Limiting Factor

As a business leader, whether you are aware of it or not, there are almost always limiting factors or critical constraints that determine how fast the organisation achieves it objectives. Not only can a constraint slow you right down, if it is continuously ignored it can and often does bring the business to its knees.

Follow The Formula

Constraint analysis is founded on a few simple steps.

First and foremost decide on your specific, measurable, time-bounded goals.

Second ask yourself, “Why have I not achieved this goal already?”.  What is it that is holding you back?  What limiting step are you stuck on?