tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509085333697351595.post2125505025437118910..comments2023-07-07T05:20:45.573-04:00Comments on The Board of Veteran CEOs: What Stops Your Organization From Having a Winning Culture?Ted Santoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13297157208874765112noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509085333697351595.post-12934728101005803182014-07-11T13:02:47.598-04:002014-07-11T13:02:47.598-04:00Thanks, Jan. As always, I enjoy and appreciate yo...Thanks, Jan. As always, I enjoy and appreciate your comments to my articles. <br /><br />I get what you are saying about passion. That appears to be a very popular belief. <br /><br />At the same time, how do you account for the very passionate people who have a new passion every week, month or year? For some reason, even with their passion, they are never high performers. Because most people on the planet are not high performers, most people with a strong passion are not high performers. <br /><br />On the other hand, I have seen people with absolutely no passion, skills or competencies for something do an extraordinary job. In fact, they were asked to do something that they did not know how to do. Yet, because they were already committed to being a high performer, the task at hand had nothing to do with passion. They were committed to high performance, regardless of the task. This is a big reason many financial firms hire college athletes. They are looking for high performance and the ability to work in teams. <br /><br />In no way am I saying passion is wrong. I am a little lost when people talk about the need for passion and the belief that you have to have passion for high performance. Passion is an afterthought when you have become good at something. If that were not the case, you wouldn’t have so many people who change passions so often. <br /><br />The challenge is the observer of a high performer is in the stands watching. Once you get on the field to play, you see that passion is not enough to be a high performer. When things become very difficult, people who are passionate about something will often say this was not meant to be and give up. Highly committed people work through the discomfort. That is the reason the highly committed person can start something they don’t know how to do and become the best. For example, Tiger Woods changed his swing at least 3 times. Each time he changed it, his performance dropped significantly. Passionate people would rather stay with what they do well. High performers work through the discomfort of failure. <br /><br />As for unreasonable promises and requests, when you ask someone to do something that they don’t know how to do, that could appear unreasonable. When you ask someone to accomplish something that is known to be impossible or unknown because it has never been done, that is an unreasonable request. Passionate people have a difficult time with this because they only like doing what they are good at. <br /><br />High performers are a very different animal. The conversations they have with themselves are usually unfamiliar to people who depend on passion. Those conversations are a great catalyst that allows them to accomplish that which they don’t know how to do. <br />Ted Santoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13297157208874765112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2509085333697351595.post-8339344161314196092014-07-10T14:58:50.251-04:002014-07-10T14:58:50.251-04:00Ted....GREAT POST AGAIN !!!
I can be very short on...Ted....GREAT POST AGAIN !!!<br />I can be very short on this one....THE KEY to "high performing" conversations is PASSION.<br />It takes passion to turn possibilities into reality. This conversation has to start with the CEO and has to travel all the way top-down the organisation coherently. If one is aksed to do things he/she is really passionate about, there are no unreasonable requests & promises. In their passion, people will almost appear reckless. Passion leads to integrity and accountability. Why would people complain if they can live their passion??. The language will sound like: “I can do this because it's my passion". "I will show what I'm best at", “I'll do this because I 'love' this", “Let’s go for it!”<br />Now, passion alone is not enough! You also need talents (usually they come with the passion), strenghts and good "mentors"/coaches/leaders/managers who create an environment to let these passionate people grow in their capabilities.<br />It's a completely different culture from what most companies today know and understand !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com