The System is the Secret: Proven Ways to Implement the Systems that Will Transform and Grow Your Business by James Karl Butler

Author:James Karl Butler
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Sound Laws of Success, LLC
Published: 2014-09-08T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Leadership Development Systems

“The time, money, and effort required to develop team members don’t change the team overnight, but developing them always pays off.”

—John C. Maxwell

In this chapter, I’d like to discuss how to work better with those around you as you develop your leadership systems. When I consult with entrepreneurs around the country, it is amazing how many of the issues that we discuss come down to issues with personnel who aren’t doing what the owners would like to have done. As a result, there is tremendous frustration and disappointment in overall results.

A big part of having better systems around leadership development is ensuring that you have the right mindset about whom you choose to work with, develop, and grow into a better leader.

The dictionary defines mindset as “a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations.” Your habitual way of interpreting and responding to situations that come up in your business is a big indicator on the rate at which you will grow and how successful you will be.

Roger Schwartz in his book, Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams says:

“Your mindset is like your computer’s operating system. Every computer needs one to run. Without an operating system any computer is an expensive paperweight. A computer’s operating system organizes and controls all the computer’s hardware and software so that the computer acts in a flexible but predictable way. Your mindset does the same thing. You use your mindset to act and get results. Your mindset controls the decisions you make, the statements you make, and the questions you ask. Like any good operating system, your mindset enables you to take action quickly, effortlessly and skillfully. It does this by using your core values and assumptions to design your behavior….If your mindset is like an operating system, then your behavior is like application software….This arrangement poses limitations as well, including the fact that the version of the operating system you’re running affects how well your application software runs. You know this if you’ve ever tried to run a new program, like a video game, only to discover that your operating system won’t support it. If you’re trying to run the most current versions of Google Earth, iTunes, or your favorite video game and you’re using the current version of your operating system, your application will probably run happily. But try to run a [new] program on an out-of-date operating system like Windows 95 and you’ll be out of luck.” –pp. 19-20.

He continues:

“It’s the same with people’s mindsets and behaviors. Sometimes you want to change your behavior to get better results. You get excited by something you learn or experience, maybe even in a leadership or team development program. You hope you can install the program and run it like new software, and that you and your team will be able to accomplish more, better, and faster. Unfortunately, most of the time it doesn’t work. Just as you can’t successfully run a new computer application without

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