Bold Moves

Realize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic, bold move which by definition, cannot be planned. ~Ross Johnson


I have been given a lot of thought to the new leadership challenge awaiting me, pondered night and day the tactics I need to undertake to help these 5 workgroups become a team again. Again? I am not really sure they have ever truely been a team in the sense of the word that depicts people sacrificing for each other to achieve a common goal.

I have been watching them from the outside for some time so am familiar with their foibles. I have started compiling a list of actions that will help them escape the deep rut they have been traveling in which will allow the to forge a bold new path to success. I am saddened by their lack of success because they are good people, intelligent people, creative people with a desire to perform at the highest levels. But, they are so deep into a rut that they cannot break free.

Bold moves are what they need. Only radical change will enable them shed the shackles that have hindered them for the past few years, break free of the prison defined by attitudes and ingrained habits that have bound minds needing freedom to enact radical change.

They have tried incremental changes from project to project without ever achieving true, sustained success in their endeavors. Incremental changes simply will not work when the rut is so deep minor course corrections are swallowed whole. Incremental changes simply will not suffice when the light of success can't be seen over entrenched behaviors.


My job is not to provide solutions to their problems but to give them the gift of boldness, give them the gift of boldness that will allow them to find creative new solutions within themselves, give them the gift of boldness which will set them free to discover the greatness lying within them, give them the freedom that comes with acting boldly.