Your Smart Victims Unit Is Ruining Productivity and Culture

dog lying on a doggie pillow looking sadLast month, a good client came to me with some concerns. He felt that his organization had been making great strides in defining their purpose, vision, and core values. He also felt like the work we had done together had really helped to restructure the organization and improve internal processes so that the organization was positioned appropriately to meet future goals.

But now, he felt the really hard part was kicking in – people issues. One of the key strengths of the EOS system is to help business owners get the right people in the right seats. However, sometimes that means moving or letting good people go, if there is no longer a seat for them.

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When Your Business Team Members Don’t “Get It”

basketball players straining to grab a loose ballThe best basketball players in the league get it. The original Dream Team’s Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird come to mind. They understand the game so intuitively, it’s second nature to them. They make playing seem effortless. 

In my article on building your business dream team, I stated that you must have players who passionately share your vision and have the skills to help your business win consistently. Your players must get it, want it, and have the capacity (GWC™ in Traction terms) to consistently deliver what their position on the team requires.

So what does “get it” really mean?

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Are You Willing to Become Your Best in Business?

hand holding a gold medal up in the airAre you willing to become your best?

Instinctively, most business leaders would answer Yes to this question. Why on earth would anyone say No? The challenge comes when small business leaders are put to the test—in the heat of the moment of the day-to-day grind. This is when shortcuts are taken to ease tension and pain. Because after all, everyone is overwhelmed.

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Are High-Performers Holding Your Company Hostage?

old style iron lock and keysYou may have inherited, hired, or promoted people who you’ve recognized and rewarded for exceptional production and output—only to hear rumblings that they’re getting those results in ways that damage your company’s reputation, aggravating fellow team members and undermining everything that you’re trying to accomplish for the long term. These are usually me-first versus we-first people who put their interests before the Core Values of the organization.

In the meantime, they continue to produce results, but they get those results in ways that go against the company culture. In other words, while they are highly productive short-term, they’re killing your company long-term.

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Are You a Great Communicator with Your Direct Reports?

The objective of this Clarity Break is to help you greatly improve your communication skills as a leader and manager. As you may know, I’ve just released a new book, How To Be A Great Boss, with co-author René Boer. I’m excited to say that it was a #1 new release on Amazon. The purpose and inspiration behind the book is that there is a desperate need for a simple, practical guide to help the leaders and managers of small businesses master their craft. And, many leadership and management books twist people into knots getting them to believe they have to be 100 different things to be great, and that’s just not true. In our new book we share The Five Leadership Practices and The Five Management Practices of great bosses. 

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How to Simplify Painful Business Decision Making

businessman and businesswoman making a decision at a table with lots of papers and a laptopOne of my clients, a small software company in Detroit, had this a-ha moment in our recent quarterly session. “With great power comes great responsibility. We have great power (talent on our team), and we’re not being responsible because we aren’t focusing it effectively.”

Fortunately, they have great people on their team that fit into their culture and are extremely talented. Unfortunately, several team members are bringing in too many new ideas and opportunities for the team feasibly to pursue.

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