The Bus Must Have A Great Driver To Reach The Final Destination -Luciano The Key Santini-SSDE

Good morning to all those who continue to support and believe in my abilities to change both your internal thinking and or your business operations to reach the potential you are capable of. Sometime I write things that perhaps do not make sense at first sight but you see it is not about what you see but it is about what you do not see and believe me my friends we all have these blind spots in both our business and in our minds.

One must try to be consistent always

Our thinking can cloud clear thinking and our eyes can lie to us.  If you have either a small or a larger organization what constitutes change and how and when does change happen? We will all have a different answer but let us start by saying that what Jim Collins said makes so much sense and here is what Mr. Collins stated" Get the right people on the bus,get the wrong people off the bus before you start to drive the bus".

 Sometimes as owners or executives we need to make some major choices and those choices are not simple because you are not dealing with ghosts you are dealing with real human beings.

How do you make these changes well you have to take a real good look at who is driving the bus first of all.

Your drive must be someone who can deal with change real change because with real change comes a different type of responsibility. Different people coming on board different types of resistance  and the big one entitlement. 

You are a bus driver the leader of this office-region entire organization . The bus is obviously the organization or company. The problems are ongoing the responsibility is to much what do you do!!! Well you have to get the bus moving but just moving you have to get it moving in the right direction. Then once you get it going you have to decide which direction and once you get it going the most important part of this change is who is going with you in order to get to the final destination and that my friends is the most important piece of this formula.

Many leaders begin driving their organization in what seems the right direction however while driving you find out that you have all the wrong passengers but the bus is moving HELLOOOO!!! a little to late well not really but now it will however become more difficult to make any changes now you will be dealing with the unions and or longtime employees who really were just on for the ride meaning people who did just enough to collect that paycheck OUCH!!!!!!

My friends change is ongoing phenomena and you have to have the right people in the right places why you might ask simply because when you have to make a right turn and some want to go to the left you r organization will be in trouble yes it is that simple. When you have the right people making that turn becomes so much easier because all will lean in the same direction.

You see when you have an executive who cannot make the right choices that executive needs to be removed. When that manager cannot make choices that manager needs to be removed not rewarded. When that employee cannot do his or her job that employee needs to be removed not rewarded. We all know and understand change is hard and we all know there is always fear involved and as owners or executive believe those are the reasons why people do not want to lean in the right direction. The truth is we believe that but what we believe is sometimes not the truth ooops! but a justification on the issues our organization is going thru.

I have heard that great leaders always have a long to do list but where is their stop doing list Oh YEA that right I said it where is your stop doing list;

A: Stop rewarding people for doing a half-@#$% job

B: Stop giving out satisfactory performance reviews when it is not even mediocre

C: Stop telling yourself it will get better and turn the other way.

D; Stop complaining and start doing the right thing.

And the list can go on and on and on.

When I teach clients this it is like such an eye opener but funny at the same time. I had a baseball game last weekend and one of my sons team was shot one player and they were going to forfeit the game and these were the 8-10 year old. I walked up to the coach and said hey coach have an extra team shirt and he said yea. I said alright then put in my 5 year old in he plays a little. The coach agreed to do so.

I walked up to my son who plays T-ball and told him you are the key to this game are you ready and he looked up at me and he said yes I am. He went up to bat and he looked at me and he smiled and as the ball was pitched to him he smacked that ball and he ran all the way to 2nd base.

The point that I am trying to make here is that sometimes we have to make some unrealistic choices and they are unrealistic only because we cannot see past of what seems real and difficult. The coach could not believe how well he could hit not once but three more times after that. The coach said to me not only could he hit but he was consistent. A true leader must try his or her best to be consistent always.

Politeness usually begins at home or it doesn’t begin at all.

Politeness to others is usually born out of respect for the individual, which you learn as a child. When you are treated with respect by other members of the family, you learn to respect them as well. The self-esteem that results from being recognized as a unique person by the people who matter most to you helps you develop the confidence necessary to succeed later in life. Politeness and consideration for others are habits that — once developed — usually stay with you for a lifetime.

 While common courtesy may seem relatively insignificant in the grand scheme of things, it is a reflection of more basic values. More important, if you develop the habit of respecting others, you are likely to command respect from them.