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Seeing and understanding how the powerful become powerless is crucial to business leaders and entrepreneurs.  This is how the potential solution (change-oriented employee) becomes the problem (status quo, change-resistant employee).

Metrics are used to drive improvement and help businesses focus their people and resources on what’s important. The range of metrics that companies employ vary from those that are mandatory – for legal, safety, or contractual purposes – to those that track increases in efficiency, reductions in complaints, higher profits, and more significant savings.

For organizations to be successful, they need to have unity.  They need to be, using office speak, “singing from the same sheet of music.” There needs to be organizational unity at the highest level.

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.