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The business world is not conducive to opting out. Sure, there are many aspects where we can simplify our lives and have more rudimentary accounting systems, management policies, and personal relationships.  But we still have a life of commitments. We are in business to fulfill a need, and the people whose needs we are fulfilling are depending on us.  Being in business is making a commitment to be in business.

We don’t come into life fully formed, and our lives are a continuous process of shaping and crafting the character and person that we want to become. Along the way, we will encounter others who have the traits, experience, knowledge, and achievements that we aspire to attain. There is the temptation to follow after individuals without honestly evaluating what their lives represent or what we can learn from them.

A ritual is a carefully selected way of doing something that has a sense of purpose and a positive side effect in addition to the straightforward completion of the task. A daily ritual will provide energy and enjoyment, along with efficiency and structure.

Being connected to our vulnerability is vital in this new work environment where we must figure out how to negotiate the race, gender, sexuality, and class issues as they are being presented. To further clarify, vulnerability isn’t about letting all the personal facets of ourselves show.

As business leaders and entrepreneurs, we need accountability.  We need to be accountable to our employees, shareholders, and stakeholders.  We need our employees to be accountable to us and to each other. The primary way to reinforce accountability is through goal setting.

As business leaders and entrepreneurs, we need always to be driving change in our business. To see our business as a stagnant model is to fail.  Change is the one constant we can count on.

If you’re like most people, uncertainty creeps up far too often. It’s a horrible feeling, isn’t it? But it doesn’t have to be this way. You don’t need to live in a state of constant upheaval. Because one thing is for certain; as the old saying goes, the only constant is change. And identifying and addressing change is the only solution for overcoming a mysterious and depressing future.

Science is a “systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.”  Through the structure of the study, different scientists can arrive at different conclusions. This is why scientists come to opposing conclusions on issues such as the treatment of COVID 19, global warming, critical earth population analysis, just to name a few.

Each day roughly 120 million people (as of 2015) walk into a workplace somewhere in the United States. Annually, half of these workers personally witnessed some form of ethical misconduct, according to the Ethics Resource Center (ERC). These are not occasions where employees are privy to the CFO committing fraud or other such significant scandals but are more likely it’s the everyday brand of unethical behavior such as lying to a supervisor or submitting a false expense report.

As business leaders and entrepreneurs, we need to remember that just because something is easy for us doesn’t mean it’s easy for other people. Many leaders forget that, so they often dismiss questions because they already know the answer. That doesn’t mean the question is dumb — it just means it’s not obvious to other people.  So, business leaders need to practice patience and grace on those they work with.