Stop blaming the outside world
Jim Harter at Gallup was recently asked what successful organizations have in common. The answer might surprise you.
It isn’t huge financial resources. It isn’t charismatic leaders. It isn’t perfect products or services.
Sure, these things help. But it turns out these are not the deciding factors in success. So what is?
It’s a refusal of employees at every level to use the economy, or any outside circumstances, as an excuse for failure.
The economy will ebb and flow. That’s a guarantee. And across all industries, Harter has found that those companies taking the lows as an excuse to fail are much more likely TO fail than those who, as he puts it, “just leaned into it a bit more.”
Just a bit more!
A recession or tough economy can get into your head like a cancer. And once you have that excuse, it’s easy to let yourself fall short of success.
But if you want to join the winners, don’t find excuses outside of yourself. Meet the inevitable challenges, and lean in!