and so on. Perhaps an apt description for themselves is: “We have met our greatest enemies – us.” In times of negative mental attitudes, it is always best to keep busy, to plough your staff’s energy into something positive. Small changes in the staff’s mindset can go a long way in building a healthy corporate culture. You should recognise, commend and celebrate every little success. Once people start to achieve success, it spurs them on to greater efforts. Mental attitudes are contagious.
Principle 5: Vision, feedback and action – three meals a day keep the corporate doctor away
Someone said that feedback is the breakfast of a champion. However, in today’s turbulent marketplace, breakfast alone is not enough. you need three meals to keep the doctor away. in the corporate dietary system, you need vision for breakfast, feedback for lunch and action for dinner. Vision and feedback without action is dreaming. Action without vision and feedback is wasting time. But vision, feedback and action – the three meals a day will serve to keep the corporate doctor away.
Some people believe that information is power. But information is useless if no one acts on it. It is similar to the treatment of a sick patient. The doctor can have ail the right information on how to cure the patient. However, if he does not take appropriate and timely action to treat the patient, the outcome for the patient remains unchanged. Conversely, action must be complemented with the correct information. Acting on the wrong information may kill the patient as the remedies may be worse than the disease. This is why all three ‘vision, feedback and action’ are necessary,
It is the application of the correct information that