It’s not easy to lead a winning team. I’m not sure it has ever been, and it sure hasn’t gotten any easier lately, has it?
How do we build a winning team culture? We all know that it starts at the top. It also stops at the top, doesn’t it? There’s the saying “A fish rots from the head down.”
To create and sustain a winning culture takes focus, expectations, accountabilities, and celebrations. It’s balancing the demands of sales, operations, production, and accounting functions. Most importantly, it’s providing the right environment for the people within those areas to succeed.
With all the pressures of running a company, some days I get tired and overwhelmed and it seems as though good enough should be good enough! Looking for personal inspiration to bust out of that mindset, I recently took the time to re-read the book Good to Great by Jim Collins.
The key messages are