DGrant Gibson

Remember when you were a kid…

…and you were given your first bike? Of course it may not have quite looked like the one in this picture but just the same it was your first bike! Looking after your bike was just as important as riding it, remember? I washed my bike, fixed when it needed, and kept it locked in my special spot for easy access when needed. I project forward to today and the art of running a business. It is very much like that special bike. Consider each spoke to represent an employee of a company. One spoke can cause the bike to not steer correctly, eventually causing other spokes to not work properly and wear out, eventually making the bike un-rideable, requiring major maintenance to fix it, or eventually needing to buy a new bike, which mom and dad were not about to do! They did not have the money to hand out because of negligence and poor managment, something you owned and were responsible for. Business is exactly the same way. You do not want a bad spoke in the wheel of your business to become the ’spokesman’ for the entire operation, thereby affecting other spokes. Lets take employees for example. World bike racers maintain their bikes in as top shape as they keep themselves, knowing the loss of any edge to win is apparent which could quickly deteriate ending in failure, losing of the race. So it is with business. Any employee(s) that brings to their workplace and causes disruption in the wheel of the operation with aggressiveness, control, negativity and drama is disfunctional to the goodwill and comradery of the team and will need to be fixed or replaced. It’s that simple. Or morale will go down quickly to the point of losing good employees and once happy clients, customers. Your good employees will sense poor leadership and guidance, which will make it way to the top of the organization affecting the stearing of the company, thereby hurting the customer, which could eventually end the business! Smart intuitive leaders recognize a bad spokesman affecting the operation quickly and nip it in the bud. This keeps the business going forward with the momentum it needs to success at all times and have the edge. The bad spoke may not be an employee but in the finances, structure, or even the management and leadership. Any part of the business hurting the wheel of the operation. And you can only do this by showing up and paying attention to your business. A great boss will always look after his/her bike, ensuring it goes for many, many miles, safely, quickly and effectively, through all kinds of weather with the best ride possible over rough and smooth terrain, up and down hills, around detours, over cement and gravel, but always getting you to where you want to get to.

Don’t let any spoke on your bike become the spokesman for you!

Until the next WebLog, GG

A recent tv show I watched based from the UK brought once again to the forefront the art of manners and social etiquette. Eight gals, in their 20’s, were taken to a school for one month to ‘learn’ the right way to ‘behave’ and socialize/mingle with people, especially single males of royal dissent. All of the gals came from backgrounds in common society. More specific, bars chasing, binge drinking ‘anything goes’ in public type of behaviors. Very few of them could use ‘higher’ fluid language with eloquence, present themselves with poise, could cook, or knew appropriate dress code according to the standards of royal society. Each week one of the eight gals were ’sent home’ and would not make the status of ‘lady’. Only one would be chosen as a ‘lady’ in the final show.

Their behaviors were amazing to watch unfold as days went on. When they were in a ‘controlled’ environment they faired okay during the learning phases, but left on their own to have the live-in school to themselves or go out on their own quickly revealed their weaknesses and just how fast we in common society go back to our ‘old ways’! None of them knew or displayed what was appropriate in any given environment. They went out to meet eligible high society bachelors, royal ladies, wealthy men of social status and barons in wealthy environments/homes, but through the efforts of their teachers, had to work hard at bringing themselves to acceptable levels. They did not even know how to ‘talk’ and mingle with high society let alone interact with a special poise and commanding presence of beauty.

There is a lesson for everyone in this, including me, and I am a male! Appropriate behavior and interaction is a learned art! The next step after this learning is to always pay attention to choose behaving his way or quickly we fall back to the old ways quickly…and in most cases, not even know it! You and I have total agency to choose the higher ground of social interaction and behavior.

If you aspire for super health and super wealth in your life you might want to consider what the wealthy are doing, and follow it! It is like a protocol, a code of action, a step by step system of action which will integrate ‘inside’ you.

Choose this new path and you may receive an RSVP from royalty to attend the ball, be flowered with roses, endowed with rubies and pearls, showered with kind words and expensive wine, have your special engraved name place at the table of abundance with silver utensils and gold plates.

Are you up to the challenge?

Until the next WebLog