Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

In organisations, teamwork is what creates the success, and you can spot successful teams from others by the way they behave. Leaders of these teams invested in creating a shared sense of purpose (a common goal) that drives everyone to help each other in order to achieve that goal faster.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Your focus (the important) is key as it drives how you use your time, which is really your life. Also, that focus should be on using your strengths and in those areas of your passion. When you do that, the real you is in action. When you begin chipping away from your life the unimportant, you bring more of the "real you" into your life.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Everyone we meet are different to us in some way, as no two people are ever exactly the same. Some people focus on the differences and struggle with their relationships with others. However, those with strong people skills are always looking beyond the differences and focus on what they have in common, which brings them closer together.

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The Obvious?

I often think that I am not teaching people in business anything new about social media  so much as helping them unlearn some bad habits about communication. Helping them to unlearn the use of management speak, the use of dispassionate third person language, the tone of aloofness that has seemed in the past to afford them protection.

I so well remember when I got my first real management job being petrified at the sense of responsibility. Like so many do I started trying to protect myself by wearing a tie and talking funny. Spouting stuff about “process” and “strategy” and “empowerment”. Thankfully I grabbed hold of myself, pulled myself back from that slippery slope and ditched the tie. Many don’t. They keep going and become so immersed in the nonsense that they forget how to be any other way.

Reminding them can be challenging. The trouble is it leaves them exposed – like the papier mache Mephistopheles of Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness:

“I let him run on, this papier-mâché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe…”

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

There are various levels of belief that people have in what they are doing. Answers to the question – Do you really believe it? – always uncovers everyone’s level of belief. That’s a good question to ask ourselves, for if our belief is not strong, then our actions will not be strong as well.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

What makes a person successful is often invisible to others. It’s their preparation time, the time when they confirm their focus (the important) and plan the key actions and meetings with others that will help them achieve that focus. What’s invisible to others can power your success.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

Take a look at the best teachers and you will see that they are always using examples for the students to grasp new ideas faster. It’s the same for leaders, as they are always using stories & examples to illustrate their key points. An example is the best teacher.

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The Obvious?

I am often asked by clients how to deal with people who block their attempts to bring the social web into organisations. I still have the emotional scars from dealing with the same sort of people myself, so I remember the feelings of frustration well.

I didn’t understand it fast enough but the most important lesson I learned about dealing with these people was that they suck energy. By even dealing with them you give them power. Instead of focussing on moving things forward you get dragged into dealing with their resistance.

But remember you are not going to “convert” everyone and nor should you try!

The way to deal with this is to find ways to route around them. Isn’t this the way the internet was meant to deal with obstacles? Instead of clashing antlers find a way, or more often than not many little ways, to allow them to keep thinking what they think but do what you have to do anyway. I always have the image in mind of nature re-populating concrete industrial landscapes. Roots and shoots emerging through cracks and weaknesses in the apparently solid structures and gradually weakening them until they crumble.

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Mark’s Daily Thought – Ideas from Mark Fritz to help you Get Ahead, Stay Ahead and Be Successful

People are always searching for the answers, and often looking for others to provide them. However, the seeds for all your accomplishments started in your head, and you started making them happen when you decided to take action. Your decisions (not other’s) are what drives your life.

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