Change Drives Your Business
W
hat is wrong with my business?
Often, the answer is the lack
of talented leadership either in
the current staff or in those potential hires.
What would one look for in this group and
what are the core elements you want and
need today to win and grow?
• Fresh Thinking. New ideas and per-
spectives are the fuel for any company's
continued growth and innovation. Do you
have inspired leaders bringing best think-
ing, challenges, assumptions and a plat-
form to implement insights with confidence
and precision?
• Enhanced Decision Making. They
must be effective for the toughest decisions
and lead fellow executives who have to meet
and overcome the same challenges. Its like
getting the "trial" without the "error;' and it
helps members make better decisions when
the stakes are highest.
• Accountability for Success. Business
right team leaders and take action. Most
leaders have precious few people to turn
companies today have had wild success, but
to for seasoned advice and the plain truth.
under the reality that they had this success
With no agenda except to help one another
succeed, build groups and facilitators to test seeded many years ago.
As the world changes, the
assumptions, uncover oppor-
rules change, the customer
tunities and hold each other
changes and thus how we think,
accountable for taking action.
manage and gain results must
• Improved Performance. In
all come under scrutiny. So can
the end, it is about improving
you, your current team, do what
members' performance so their
needs to be done?
companies can perform better.
Many can, but in most cases,
It's about continuous, acceler-
either new training or new
ated, practical learning that's
people must be part of the mix
more lasting than any one-time
workshop and more actionable
F. Kevin Browett for the company to remain in
the game. That said, the key
than any flavor-of-the-day busi-
Colu mnist
then becomes finding those
ness book. It's about turning
right consultants or right people to help you
good intentions into great results.
move ahead.
The issue really comes down to: Can the
My challenge to you is the toughest chal-
current executive and management team
lenge in business for a CEO, founder, EVP,
leaders do this or be taught to do this? If
owner, whatever that "title" is: To see this
they cannot, then one must bring in the
decision as your greatest strength and not a
weakness. Often, we see no change made or
no new blood brought in because the leader
feels this is a sign of weakness. The reality
is, by actually making that decision, you are,
in fact, showing the greatest strength and
self-confidence. You made those tough deci-
sions to get to where you are and this is just
another step in the process of success.
What is wrong with your firm? It is fail-
ing to surround yourself with the best
talent, the toughest team of executives that
embrace change and then execute that
change. Or perhaps better said, "He who
hesitates is lose
Stop hesitating and get going.
❑
F. Kevin Browett, is COO of Jewish Renaissance
Media, parent company of the Detroit Jewish
News. He is a former vice president of Kmart
Corp. and a past small-business founder and
officer.
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