Five Games People Play That Ruin Results
The current economic climate has everyone filled with fear. Government spending is out of control, and the deficit is having devastating effects at home and abroad. Consumer confidence is down, so spending is, at best, “guarded.” Corporations won’t part with their capital for fear of a tanking global economy. In addition, organizations everywhere have been slashing positions, programs, products, and services because of sustained economic disarray. Everyone is wondering what to do to remain afloat financially.
With organizational and individual confidence at all-time lows, we must remember that organizations don’t perform, people do. Individual performance results in productivity, which translates directly into profitability. Improving the bottom line has far more to do with how people think and interact with each other than what numbers on a spreadsheet reveal. Why? Because spreadsheets don’t show how the failure to think and act together impacts profitability.
Individual performance grows out of the conversations we hold. Focused conversations create alignment; alignment creates velocity; and velocity exponentially impacts profitability.
Burdened by the current economic challenges, leaders and managers, now more than ever, need to focus on...
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