Every organization needs a strong team. Every progressive organization needs a dynamic team that will lead the organization forward. Without a dynamic team of unique personalities, likes and interests the creative culture and the life of an organization grows bland and stale. Individuals who are nontraditional create a healthy tension in the way ideas are generated, shared and executed by offering unpredictable perspectives. Some of dynamic individuals include:
Freaks – As Tom Peters put it, freaks are the only (only) ones who succeed – as in, make it into the history books. Jeremy Gutsche states that Nontraditional thinkers offer the maverick ideas and the personality a company needs to adapt.
At the beginning of the day, every organization must ask themselves the provocatively dumb “Why?” question; “Why are we doing this?”
Non-monetary success cannot be determined without understanding your true purpose behind what you do? Getting into business to make money is not the purpose, it is merely a result of the vision that birthed the idea which has been translated into a viable business.
How do you explain why others are able to achieve things that defy all assumptions?
All the great leaders and organizations in the world think, act and communicate the exact same way, and it’s the complete opposite of how everyone else does it.
Very few organizations know why they do what they do, their purpose, their belief, their cause.
Why does your organization exist?
Why do you get out of bed in the morning?
Why should anyone care?
Typically, most organizations think, act and communication from the outside in (starting with the What, then How, and finally Why), going from the clearest to the fuzziest.
The greatest individuals and organizations think from the inside out – starting with the Why.
Yes, there is a difference between Vision and Mission. Sadly enough, most organizations do not know the difference, and end up creating unnecessary confusion within their organization – resulting in stunned forward momentum. In a nutshell…
Vision is
Future Oriented
The bigger picture
The aspiration
How you envision the world
The results
The purpose
The Why
Mission is
The process of achieving the Vision
Now oriented
The action & activity
The methods, systems, approaches
The How
When the Vision is not reached, it is not the Vision that needs changing, but the Mission – the methods of attaining the Vision.
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