FEAR: is driving much of our behaviour right now as we do not know what to expect next. We are living in incredibly uncertain times. Our teenage daughter came home a few nights ago and said her history teacher had told them we were heading for a depression and she wanted to know what we could expect this to be like!!!! I received an e-mail from a "funky thinker" colleague who said stop reading the papers and read about the future 10 years from now and start to explore how you will fit into this - forget the doom and gloom of the here and now!!!! I sat with an executive team as they spoke of the risk aversion and the fear driving their choices in leadership behaviour - they have returned to the command and control style of leadership - where you control, protect and comply. Leaders demand things are done their way and the costs they think need to be cut are cut. And so they have catalysed people into the downward spiral of fear. There is an alternative to this approach - there is the Upward Spiral of Courage.
COURAGE: I witnessed a nation starting to embrace the Upward Spiral of Courage after Obama's speech last night - he provided hope and is showing the courage to change! Leaders in corporate Australia can do the same - approach the problems and the issues with interest, creativity and integrity. Facilitate others thinking so they can come to work and enjoy themselves, develop themselves and approach problems with creativity rather than constraint and fear. We have a generation of people who have not experienced such financial hardships before - imagine the ideas they might have if we only facilitate rather than constrain and close them down by telling them their ideas won't work!!!!
Fear is an unproductive and uncertain place to live in; while courage is where we feel energised and we believe and we have hope!!!!!
Join us on the Upward Spiral of Courage and leave the donward spiral of fear behind!!!!!!
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