simple and powerful!

Check out the excerpt below - my new MD gave this to me in our first 1:1 meeting last month. Now I am as big a cynic (and probably bigger than) as most of you reading this .. but something about these simple 5 lines caught me - as I thought a little about this - the strength of these points really drove home..

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Beliefs that drive my behavior:

1) Build an organisation - the volumes/Business will follow:

• You cant succeed if your people dont
• Find a mission and culture to rally around
• Create legacies, not assignment histories

2) Lead, Follow or get out of the way - DONT WHINE:

• You are an entrepreneur, not a consultant - act, dont just give advice
• Dont bitch about ur brand team - if you dont believe who will?
• All teams need cheerleaders - and it starts with us

3) Win externally, dont swirl internally

• If it doesnt build cases or equity, dont do it
• Dress up the store, not the office
• Business should drive processes, not the other way around

4) Business can be much simpler than we make it

• Win with few big ideas rather than with small scattered ideas
• Buzz words come and go - fundamentals are forever
• Focus on the action - not the jargon
• Cut the swirl - elevate to the decision maker

5) Be ready to quit everyday without regrets

• Have passions other than, and more lasting than work
• Do whats right for the business and my people, forget 'agendas', 'promotion timings'

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Do post a comment if you didnt understand something - and ill put it in a non-P&G way :p