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A Plea for Growth… the Right Growth

This week Jeremie Kubicek shares the secret to what kind of growth we should all be striving for.

“Grow or die!” This is a common phrase used by many consultants to motivate or manipulate audiences. Yet, most of us would agree with this phrase in a business context.

The question that confronts me is, “Grow what?” Your first impression of growth might be “revenue” growth. While revenue generation is vitally important to all organizations, we would like to expand your vision of growth, specifically as it affects the leader, your team and your company.

How does a leader grow? What is the best way to raise the capacity and capabilities of your team? What can a company do to effectively grow its business? How do you execute and measure these results effectively?

So my question again is, “Grow what?” The short answer is YOU! Growth is a process of maturing and developing. It is an increase in value or strength. When you grow, it affects multiple relationships, processes and organizations. It is a matter of being the right person. Growth affects the individual (you), your goals and your motivations. I have watched organizations succeed and fail on this principle. While I think “Grow or Regress” can be overdramatic, I do believe, “Grow or Shrink” is more appropriate. I have watched hundreds of CEOs and companies regress by not focusing on the growth of the individual.

The fundamental reason for this regression or atrophy is that growth is painful. Growing muscles requires weight training. Growing your team requires time. Growing a marriage requires selflessness. Simply put, growing always requires something. It requires you to give more of yourself to others. It requires you to be willing to learn at all ages. It requires you to want the best for other people. It requires you to learn to lead yourself first. Growth requires action, and most of the time that action is painful to the natural way of operating, leading or communicating.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe once said, “Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.”

To grow as a leader, you must discover your blind spots, enhance your strengths and exercise your mind and actions for better things.

To grow as a team, you must throw away blame, work for a greater cause and celebrate victories and positive accountability.

To grow as a company, you must find your true north, map your future and plan and implement it strategically and consistently.

Are you willing to stretch yourself beyond what you have known to experience and beyond what you desire? I dare say if you are not willing, then you will miss out on tremendous opportunities for yourself, your relationships and your organization.

Growth begins with YOU. Grow.

Have a great week unless you choose otherwise.

Drago

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Success Profile

This week we would like to recognize and congratulate Scott Held and his team at Sherwood Park Dodge. They have just celebrated their one year anniversary and are already making a significant impact in the marketplace.

Last month Scott and his team finished as the Number Two Retailer in all of Canada for Chrysler. The most remarkable aspect of this accomplishment is that it happened in only the twelfth month of business operation. You can find out more about Sherwood Park Dodge and see a video of their impressive 77,000 Square Foot Facility at SherwoodParkDodge.com

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Quote Of The Week

"You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it."

(Albert Schweitzer)

Word Of The Week

Sciolism (SYE-uh-liz-um) : A superficial show of learning.

eg : Some critics of state-mandated testing say it is an exercise in sciolism that doesn’t really demonstrate a student’s grasp of the material studied.