You are the only person who can create a fulfilling life, a successful team or a great company.
Success in your role and what happens in your company is 100% your responsibility.
This may seem obvious, but it is not all that clearly understood by many leaders and managers.
Managers tend to look outside themselves for answers when asked for better results. They also look outside themselves for reasons why things are not going as well as expected. These managers do not take responsibility for their results.
Taking 100% responsibility for everything that happens is actually quite freeing. Blame, ignoring, pretend managing and excuses all get dropped.
What replaces them is a solid belief that leadership is the answer to any problem or opportunity.
Use your role as your vehicle for personal growth
When you become 100% responsible (which you are anyway), your role expands.
Specifically, you demonstrate to yourself that, in your position, you have the power to make an enormous difference, to get things right, to create new and to produce results. It is all a matter of choosing to be recognized as the leader and to pursue your own higher vision of possibility.
Create rather than watch
Learn to spot the difference between what you are creating and what you are simply allowing to happen. To a certain extent we all allow things to happen. However, when you take the position that you are responsible for everything, the choices you make will tend toward the “we created this” side of the continuum. It is from this area that you want to lead the whole team’s operations.
I hope you can use this idea to help your business grow.
