The Obvious?

On a bad day I can begin to believe that most organisations become successful through sheer scale, brute force, and luck – not by being smart. 

On a good day I can begin to believe that helping them to become smarter is  a worthwhile pursuit. 

Most of the time I remember that I’m not helping organisations at all but the people in them – and that is ALWAYS worthwhile. 

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

Leaders focus on creating the right structure for their organisations, and often think too much on control, and not enough on communications. Successful leaders structure their organisations to facilitate the right discussions on how to deliver the customer experience.

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

We either are changing or we are going backwards…we are never staying the same. That’s why successful leaders are always threatening the present, because just staying in the present and not improving & growing is going backwards. Successful leaders always focus on progress, as this prevents their organisations from going backwards.

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

To make things happen in any organisation, a leader has to give away power to their people in order to get things done faster (and gain more power). Leaders who keep the power (and like to make all the decisions) are running their organisations to the capacity of themselves, versus using the full power of ALL their people.

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

Leaders who get the most out of their people and their organisations understand the power behind having a clear WHAT and a clear WHY. People who know both what needs to be accomplished and why it is important (both for organisation and themselves), have the power to find the how to make it happen.

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

Successful organisations have people who take ownership for what they are doing and achieving. The leaders of these organisations both inspire people to take the ownership, but also make all performance visible in order to close any escape routes to avoiding that ownership.

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

Everyone is different. That’s what makes us unique and provides our ability to add value to our organisations and others in unique ways. However, sometimes personalities clash and prevent leaders from using everyone’s unique abilities. Successful leaders know how to get different people working together well.

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

Leaders like to feel in control of their organisations, with the successful leaders knowing that they get more control by giving it away. The more ownership and control they give their people, the more successful leaders extend their control throughout the organisation. They know that keeping control is really limiting their control.

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

Successful organisations have the customer always present in everyone’s mind. The people are always customer focused, and this focus guides the decisions and actions that they take on a daily & weekly basis. Success comes faster when everyone has the "customer always present".

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

You have this situation often with organisations going through change. There are times during the change where there is no news to report (maybe a key decision is still to be made). Weak leaders go quiet until the decision is made. However, strong leaders continue to communicate through this period and keep the focus on the future direction.

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