Life is a mirror

If 21 years of coaching successful business leaders to be more successful has taught me anything it is this: ‘Life is a mirror’. What this means is that life generally and our business specifically reflects who we are and how we behave.

Fundamentally if the person at the top of the business is indecisive, the business will be indecisive, if they are naïve the business will be naïve and if they are aggressive, the business will be aggressive.

I wrote about entropy last week. The opposite of entropy in many ways is a sense of urgency. I am finding that a sense of urgency is cultural, in that either a business has a sense of urgency or it doesn’t. It is rare to find part of a business that operates with speed and urgency when the majority doesn’t.

We live in a world where speed is valued.

Ultimately that sense of urgency cascades from the top. Life is a mirror. That is why I only coach people at the top of the organisation, because any and all improvements at the top with cascade and amplify as they effect the rest of the business.

So the questions for today are:

• What can you see, in the business, that is really a reflection of you?
• Have you noticed that the best, and worst of you, is exhibited throughout the business?
• “As goes the leadership team, so goes the rest of the business”. What are you doing to constantly upgrade the leadership team?

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