Disruption Is Not The Enemy. It’s Your Next Opportunity.
In periods of disruption and rapid change the default leadership behaviour is to treat it as a threat. It’s not your fault, we are hardwired to think this way. It ensures our survival.
Unfortunately, we apply these same instincts to our organizations, managing and mitigating disruption and change as “threats” to our business survival.
Our leadership instinct is preservation. Of resources, assets and sometimes careers. It colours our thinking and pushes the organization and its people down the change continuum into survivor or struggler status. Not where you want to be at any time but in disruptive times it makes business doubly hard.
What if your next opportunity could be found in what we all fear; rapid change, complexity and the unknown?
The successful leaders in times of change and disruption take a contrarian view. They don’t fear change, complexity or the unknown. They embrace it. Knowing that opportunities for more growth and better performance are hidden in the chaos and disruption. They take a different view because they know where to look.
Change changes you.
You are not the only one to treat fears of change as a threat to our survival. Your employees and customers are human too. They are constantly adapting to their changing environments at work and at home. They develop new behaviours to survive and ultimately thrive in their new environment.
It is these new needs and behaviours that present a wealth of opportunities to out-grow and out-perform your competitors.
And this is where the successful leader steps out of the default instinct to survive and begins to with disruption and change because they know
No one is here to simply survive.
We want to become better. We have goals, ambitions and a desire to leave a mark on the world.
Your opportunity is to help them reach their goals and fulfill their ambitions so they can leave a mark on the world.
You won’t do that by preserving, mitigating and protecting them and the organization from change and disruption.
In fact, you may be damaging the long-term viability of your company because we have found that there is a long tail effect of any major change event providing significant and sustainable growth and performance opportunities.
Instead, invest in them.
Invest in your customers’ and employees’ futures with innovation, new products, processes and programs that help them through the current environment and overcome their fears. They will reward you with more growth and better performance. For you and your organization.
We call the contrarian view of change and disruption a Thrive mindset. We help leaders practice, plan, operate and succeed with it in Thrive Leadership Ecosystem program. With guaranteed results.
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