This is a story of two leaders.
We worked with the organisation on team performance and leadership because one of their sales teams was “highly successful” and another was “doing poorly, with a very low morale”. The organisation wanted us to “find out what’s working in [the high-performing team], fix the [low-performing team] and run a training programme for all the other sales teams to be as good as [the high-performing team].”
Do you believe that to succeed you just have to be lucky, Or perhaps you believe it’s all about your own hard work? No, then perhaps you think it’s down to having the right connections. After all, the saying goes, it’s now what you know, it’s who you know.
“Luck” hints to us that all good things are the result of chance. Some people are lucky, some aren’t. Or so the conventional thinking goes.
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever the cost, but the urge to serve others whatever the cost.”Arthur Ashe
I’ve been working with a client this past week who’s something of a maverick. A rebel. A person who has a different opinion and ideas about the way forward. It’s a joy for me to work with someone so intent on making a real difference and not content to follow the way things have been done in that particular organisation for years. Because the organisation is in a bit of a rut. They’re not growing, they’re stagnating. And before long, they could easily simply die out.
This leader has passion and believes that, with a few changes, things could be different. That there is life in the old dog yet.
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