“I think getting up in the morning is more exciting when you’re nervous. If you’re not nervous, you’re dead. . . .It’s time to change your life or your work the moment you stop having butterflies in your stomach.” – Warren Bennis
If certainty and stability breed complacency and mediocrity, then change and challenge is necessary to breed leadership. Leaders bring about change they initiate, they innovate, they make things happen, they disturb the status quo! Why? Because leaders bring about change and what leaders want to change must get talked about..!
“If the marketplace isn’t talking about you, there’s a reason. If people aren’t discussing your products, your services, your cause, your movement or your career, there’s a reason. The reason is that you’re boring.” – Seth Godin, You’re boring
The vision and actions taken by leaders should generate the kind of emotional engagement that provokes conversation. Leaders are responsible for shaping and organisations conversation and the quality of an organisation’s conversation is the leadership’s responsibility. The quality of the conversation can be directly correlated with the quality of the organisation’s leadership. Using conversation deliberately means that we need to think carefully about how we will craft conversation and how we can use it purposefully.
“A leader’s job is to engineer epiphanies one conversation at a time.” – Susan Scott
Consider the following:
- If you’re not waking up nervous, then you’re not getting talked about!
- If you’re not disturbing the status quo, then you’re not getting talked about!
- Is your purpose, cause and vision getting talked about? If not…. you don’t matter!
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Hi George, Great Post. I saw your Susan Scott quote. Have you read Fierce Conversations by Susan Scott? I read it last month on the recommendation of my leadership coach and really enjoyed it. I feel like I am naturally upfront and honest with people but her book challenged me to take it to the next level.
Thanks for inspiring everyone to be great leaders! There can’t be enough of us out there doing it. Hopefully there are C-level folks dropping in and taking notes
I linked to this post on the Get Entrepreneurial page of MyInspirationLounge.com.
Cheers! Misty
Inspire thoughts. Perhaps if the conversations are not in some way uncomfortable, you are not leading those in the right direction either!
Nice post. Inspires me to start and maintain those difficult conversations. I need to verbalize more about what I am thinking.