Hot Off The Press!
The St. Louis Business
Journal recently featured
Daley Group client
McFadden Lighting… and
a turnaround for this local
manufacturer.
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It’s all about LEARNING!
By John Daley
“If there is more change going on outside your company than inside,
your company is not long for this world,” says Jack Welch, General
Electric chairman and chief executive.
He goes on to say, “An organization's ability to learn, and to translate
that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive business
advantage.”
This means learning new skills, learning how to work in new markets,
learning how to change or modify what and how you do service
clients and customers… because their needs change often. This
means making your company relevant for your clients’ needs today
and tomorrow!
What’s Your Organization's Ability To Learn?
Picture standing on a hill, looking at a mountaintop, and pondering
how to get from the hill to the mountaintop. Do you hire Sherpas' (a
Sherpa means someone has the experience and skills of carrying loads
at high altitudes) to make the journey? Or do you tough it out with
your knowledge, your skills, and your experience?
Do you hire professionals or “bargain employees” or “bargain
advisors?” As in the case of real mountain climbing, the life of your
company could depend on your answer.
And, as in mountain climbing, how many times do you think people
get halfway up the mountain –– to where the weather is different and
the air is thinner –– and panic, turn around, and run?
The hardest part of this “transition in altitudes” is called “learning.”
It’s often encumbered by the fact that business owners can see the
top of the next mountain, but do not have the skills and abilities they
need to get there.
But the climb to the top is rewarding. Because there’s nothing like the
rush of seeing a business owner –– turned business leader –– standing
on top of a $40 million company (that used to be a $20 million
company and saying), “Our organization has the ability to learn and to
translate that learning into action… quickly and effectively… so that
we gain the ultimate competitive business advantage that helped us
here!”
To learn more about “the art of learning to lead” and your organization,
feel free to send an email to CoachDaley@DaleyGroup.org. Or call
636-527-7627.
Confidence comes not
from always being right
but from not fearing to be
wrong.
- Peter T. McIntyre
“Character, in the long-
run, is the decisive factor
in the life of an individual
and of nations alike.”
– Theodore Roosevelt,
26th U.S. President
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