You can Attack or You Can Help: Part I

Many top performers quickly identify and attack team members whose performance is subpar.

As someone with high standards, others who stand in the way of your accomplishments can threaten the mission.

But there’s a cost to your expedient strategy of steamrolling: others come to see you as excellent, but not a leader and teacher.

They tense up around you or argue back, putting you at odds with everyone; often a knife fight.

While attacking weakness / those who stand in your way gets a short term result, it comes at a cost: aggression makes you ineligible for higher leadership positions.

YOU CAN ATTACK OR OR YOU CAN HELP.

People are doing their best. And if they’re not, the system will manage them out.

In the interim, it’s your duty to figure out what might be going on for the person who appears to be incompetent and in your way.

By empathetically tuning into their thought process, you can help them get unstuck, move forward and create leverage for you on a recurring basis.

People who were your obstacles are now aligned and helping you move forward.

Who regularly stands in your way? Who triggers you as you try to move a project forward?

Rather than leaping into action and solving with problem without them, how can you slow down, observe their thought process and work together to get to an answer?

While not the most efficient in the moment, it pays dividends as you practice it.

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