As you move toward your desired team legacy, what costs might there be in pursuit of it? Make a list…
What challenges might you encounter on your journey?
What capital (personal or corporate) do you have that you can use to achieve your goal?
What could the impact be on your team / organization if you do not pursue your goals?
If you don’t move forward, how would you look upon your life?
How would not moving forward impact the legacy you are hoping to leave?
Let’s take this week’s discussion to our teams / organizations. Gather your team together, and share the PepsiCo story with them. Then, ask them what they’d like the team’s legacy to be.
As a team, discuss your desired legacy and what you need to do together to pursue and achieve it. Know that you may need to reallocate your time, energy, and resources in order to accomplish your dreams.
Take some time to put together a list of the ideas you have for how you will hold this meeting. The more prepared you are, the more successful you will be.
I look forward to hearing what you come up with.
We’ve all heard it said, “just because we can does not mean we should.”
So, so true! And it holds true in leadership, as well. And how we handle this will greatly influence our legacy.
Think in terms not only of what you are doing, but also give some time to thinking about what you should not be doing — those things that may be taking valuable time and resources away from making the impact you desire.
Time to get out your journal, and on a clean, fresh page, draw a line down the middle so you have two columns — one on the left and one on the right. In the left column, make a list of the ways in which you are investing your time, energy, and resources that are showing substantial return. In the right column, make a list of the ways in which your investments are bringing only a weak, or no return.
Once you have clarity around this, you may choose to do things differently, to invest your influence, focus, time, energy, and other resources in higher-return pursuits.
Then, take it one step further…What will you do differently, now?
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