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🎯 "Focus on the top line, and the bottom line will follow."

This lesson is a game-changer: When you get the strategy, people, and culture right, everything else—products, marketing, logistics—falls into place. Build the foundation, and the results will take care of themselves. 💡💼

💬 What’s one thing you’re focusing on to strengthen your foundation? Share below! 👇

Daily Inspiration: "Invincibility is a myth" - Futurist Jim Carroll

A belief in invincibility is often the start of defeat. And in all truth, once you start to think you are invincible - you probably aren’t! You might think that you are on top of the world; that nothing bad can happen; that everything will be perfect; and then, it can all come crashing down in an instant.

Often, with spectacular results.

Here are some facts:

- believing you're invincible invites vulnerability

- that vulnerability happens because you become blind to reality

- the resulting overconfidence, unchecked, will usually lead to failure

- that's because it's when you are feeling invincible that reality will swoop in

- your actual invincibility fades over time, so it's a mindset of caution that can better sustain success

The fact is, a mindset of Invincibility is often the start of defeat!
Organizations and the people within them can easily develop an attitude of invincibility when things are great. Success after success develops a culture of complacency, and inevitably, failure becomes the result when least expected. That's because a mindset of invincibility is a barrier that blocks insight.

Often, this culture of invincibility develops at the top and then permeates throughout the organization. An attitude of invincibility at the leadership level is often the biggest challenge that an organization can face because it’s easy for someone at the top to think that everything is guaranteed. That nothing will topple them.

Their ego gets in the way; their desire for praise becomes a more important goal than any real sort of strategy.

From a personal perspective, feelings of being invincible are dangerous and can wreak havoc on your overall goals and mindset. You start to believe that you have everything under control, which makes you more susceptible to failure.

Invincibility? Watch for it, be wary of it, and always be on your guard - nothing is ever guaranteed.

#InvincibilityMyth #StayHumble #AvoidComplacency #LeadershipLessons #MindsetMatters #StayVigilant #OverconfidenceKills #RealityCheck #SustainSuccess #Resilience

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2024/11/daily-i

Daily Inspiration: "The euphoria of winning is often soon offset by the reality of achieving!" - Futurist Jim Carroll

Do you remember that phrase, "underpromise and overdeliver." It's a useful mindset for achieving goals!

But what happens if you "overpromise and underdeliver" - does that work?

Nope.

Lots of folks are soon to find that out.

Remember the Fyre Festival? Awesome times! The reality? It was so underdelivered that it became the subject of not one, but two full-length documentaries - including one called "Fyre: The Greatest Party that Never Happened."

Massive promises never delivered. Oops. The founder went to jail.
So - to that point - a lot of people now expect things to suddenly get massively better in the next little while because, well, all the problems will be fixed.

Here's the thing - it's going to be tough to improve on an economy that is already firing on all cylinders. It's going to be difficult to bring back entire industries - think about the automotive sector - that have not already made the investments that are necessary to get to the future. It's going to be difficult to provide jobs that require newly emerging skills if you haven't done the retraining necessary with people to fill those jobs. It's not going to be easy to have a successful economy that is massively reliant on migrant labor if you are going to try to terrorize those people.  It's going to be tough to take away healthcare and old age security from folks when the very people who voted for come to realize that you were talking about taking away their healthcare and old age security! It's going to be difficult to fire millions of federal workers when people suddenly come to realize how those workers make things function.

Oops. Fun times ahead.

Here's the thing about overpromising - as soon as it becomes apparent that all you can do is underdeliver, mindsets move.

#Overpromise #Underdeliver #LeadershipLessons #RealityCheck #SustainableSuccess #TrustMatters #Innovation #CorporateChallenges #Expectations #LessonsLearned

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2024/11/daily-i

Leadership Lessons from the British Army

The British Army's leadership principles offer timeless lessons in adaptability, discipline, and strategy. These values are essential for professionals navigating modern challenges. Learn how to implement proven military strategies in business to enhance decision-making, teamwork, and resilience.

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When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. - (Elie Wiesel)

Are we defined by our attitude toward gratitude? Elie Wiesel believed so. Share a moment when gratitude made a difference in your life.

I had the opportunity to speak to Andy Ellis, former CSO of Akamai, about his new book "1% Leadership" and I cannot wait to read it!

In it Andy breaks the core lessons in leadership into small bite size pieces that are easily digestible for anyone who is in Leadership or wants to be there. If you're interested in moving into leadership or becoming a better leader, be sure to check it out!
amazon.com/1-Leadership-Master