Good Morning Friends! Here are my 5 Things to Consider this week!
Culture – Where does helpfulness fit into our culture? A culture of helpfulness doesn’t just appear out of nowhere. It’s not something that happens accidently either. It happens when a number of critical elements fall into place and things click. A good leader will help her team be the best it can be. She will instinctively work day-in and day-out to set them up for success. A good team will be helpful to each other because they don’t want to let their teammates down. They know each other and they respect each other. It’s the highest priority of both the leader and the team to help the customer. The Customer then pays for the leader and team to continue their mission and the cycle continues. Being helpful isn’t simply a skill we should learn, it’s the basis of everything we do. Without being helpful to everyone around you, the cycle breaks down. Even if just one part of the cycle of helpfulness falls short, the cycle breaks. The other thing about being helpful is that it costs you very little if anything at all. It’s also immensely rewarding. Helpfulness is collaboration. It’s the definition of working together. When everyone combines their efforts, value skyrockets and the results are incredible. Having a culture of helpfulness starts with trust, respect and comradery and most importantly, being helpful to those who you work alongside and serve.
Leadership – It’s up to all of us where we go from here. Cameron Mitchell said something in an interview recently that’s been sticking with me since I heard it. He said, we’re stuck in a hurricane that hit us all in mid-March. After the initial “landfall,” we’ve been in the “eye” for the last couple months and now we’re all getting slammed again. There’s a lot to unpack there, so I want to break down his statement. He is basically saying that after the first big wallop, the governments acted swiftly and for the better part of April, May and June, we’ve all been propped up by stabilization programs, like PPP. Now that those programs are getting to the end of their initial lives, we’re starting to see the real results of the “hurricane.” On top of that, there are countless other ripple effects that no one thought of that are starting to emerge. The word “unprecedented” has been thrown around a lot, but it simply means there is nothing that exists, there is no precedence, to compare these events to. It’s hard because there is no playbook. There isn’t anything historical to compare it to, so every decision we make is untested. That’s the hard part. See, we all have a part to play here. Every one of us. And it’s up to every one of us to decide if we want to be a part of the solution or hide from the problems. This pandemic, like any hardship has revealed the best and the worst in people. It’s up to each and every one of us to decide that part we want to play in the solution. Luckily for us, the spirit of the team player is strong with our organization. This is ride or die time.
History – That one time we fed LMFAO. These dude were short lived, but they were a blast while they were popular. I got a call one night from a producer friend asking me, with very short notice, if we wanted to feed a band in town. I always like these requests, (not the short notice part) because we get to show off our brand to people with a wide audience. We made 10 pies about as fast as we could and filled another box with merch and some shirts. We never got to see any of our givings made their social media or anything, but it’s still cool to know we fed some super cool dudes.
Motivation – “The way I see it, if you want a rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
The 5th Thing (something I’m reading, watching or inspired by) – A couple of recent hard decisions lately have made me go back and reference a couple leadership books I’ve recently finished. I think you know a book is good if you remember it enough to return to it to seek its wisdom.
Baby Update – Will is officially walking now. He’s also saying DaDa now too. The little dude is becoming a boy right before our eyes! The thing that fascinates me the most I think is how independent he seems to be. He doesn’t like to be fed, he’ll do it. He doesn’t like help walking, he’ll do it alone. He doesn’t like you doing things for him, he wants to do it himself. I’m curious if it’s just a phase or an early indicator of his actual personality. I guess time will tell.
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Have a great week!
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