What do you make of these axiomatic business beliefs?
- “What you see is what you measure”
- “What you measure is what you get”
- “What gets measured, gets managed” and its converse “What doesn’t get measured, gets forgotten”
- “If you don’t measure results, you can’t tell success from failure”
- “If you can’t see success, you’re probably rewarding failure”
- “If you can’t see success, you can’t learn from it”
- “If you can’t recognise failure, you can’t correct it”
- If you can demonstrate results, you can win stakeholder support”
Your leader behaviours are driven by your beliefs. If you want to change your behaviours, nothing happens until your fundamental beliefs change. That’s hard work!
Napoleon Bonaparte reputedly observed about the human condition: “A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.”
Discretionary effort from your soldiers springs from such deep leadership understandings.
