Following on from yesterday’s column (which can view here), we explore the right-hand side of the diagram below and see the outlook you can adopt that is the most productive for you personally. Transitioning the thought processes of your team to this ideal quadrant is a necessary and highly productive way to approach leading your organization forward.

Bottom right

The bottom right quadrant is where we combine a very clear mind, and a state of fear. Here we are absolutely clear on what we need to do, and why this action is sensible and appropriate. Yet we are still afraid. Here is the domain of the paralyzed!

The procrastinator, the academic, the slight modifications insisted upon as a means of delay. “Waiting for the time to be right” taken to the nth degree. A failure to act is one of the four killer mistakes I see when I am looking at why organizational change programs have failed.

Most of us have done this. Most of us will do it again in the future.

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