Wednesday, April 23, 2025

There's no crying in baseball: just step up to the plate and take your best shot...


Everyone has had at least one or more moments of truth, where you achieve your objective(s). Some are big, others small, but they each are a reckoning – of success, where results abound, or something less than success, where you figure out why. Of course, there’s a third option – making excuses, pointing fingers, whining, and wasting people’s time. Leaders must deal with these options all the time – in the first, congratulations are in order and the second is a coaching opportunity. The third needs examination, to see if the leader set people up for success or failure – success because they helped them learn, plan, and prepare; failure because they were insufficiently involved in the preparation and planning and allowed someone to be equally uninvolved and unprepared. Involvement in this instance has a lot to do with leading by example, coaching, listening, and supporting. But if we’re honest, there are some people that never get that involved or prepared – when you see that, find out why. If they don’t know, help them; if they won’t try, explain why they must. For themselves, their colleagues, customers, and other stakeholders. This is where leaders earn their stripes – making sure every moment of truth has the expected results today.

 

Brigadier General Charles Elwood “Chuck” Yeager (1923 – 2020): United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who in October 1947 became the first pilot in history confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.

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