Fear of Failure

Remember the 1947 Merle Travis song phrase “I sold my soul to the company store” ? There is a new kind of truth to that today. We may not be living in a “company town” and giving all the money we earn back to the company in rent, utilities, clothes, and groceries as the song implies; but we may still be “selling our souls” in some ways and and both we and our organizations are suffering as a result. So how can we cut the crap? Let’s break it down…

Stacie MorganSeptember 25, 2019#leadingchange, #leadership, #cutthecrap, #humansideofchange, #hope, #retention, #WisdomWednesdayComment

Individual Ability vs Organizational Applicability

You’ve got the stuff, the smarts, the experience, the connections to get the job done. You are right there. They are looking right at you! But they don’t even see you. They get some inexperienced person to do a job well beyond their capacity. Or worse…they hire some outside consultant to do fit or more than twice what they pay you. Sheesh. Enough already!

Being Undervalued

There is nothing worse (in my opinion) than being told “you don’t know what you’re talking about” when you speak your mind and your perspective from your vantage point. That statement is a cruel putdown designed to shut you up…often because you have a valid point! But you may still feel smaller, uninformed, out of your depth, and allow self-doubt to slowly seep in. Crap! You’re not alone.

Doing Work vs Creating Value

Do you ever feel like you are just marking time when you’re on the job? Doing mindless tasks, work that will just be tossed aside or redone by someone else? Work that doesn’t seem to serve an understandable purpose or one you care a whole lot about? Are you frustrated by the amount of money wasted on dysfunctional work processes and spent on outside experts when you are sitting right there with potential solutions? You are not alone. So let’s cut the crap…

Adaptive vs Disruptive Change

The key impact of disruptive change is that an idea which is great for some, causes an unanticipated and thus highly stressful scramble for others. This is a boon for the competitive landscape, but cataclysmic when it occurs within an organization itself. Here’s how to cut the crap….