Leadership lessons from a lone nut dancing on a hill
/In less than three minutes, the video shows someone start a movement and lead it to success.
He’s a shirtless guy who starts dancing on a hill. What would that look like in your company? Maybe pursuing a new market, buying out a competitor, implementing a new system, or overhauling recruiting?
The video explains several lessons for leaders including:
Have guts to stand alone.
Make it easy for others to join you.
Welcome and appreciate the early followers.
As more people come along, emphasize them. People follow followers.
While the video starts with the leader dancing guy, there is so much more to it.
The video emphasizes the importance of being the first follower. It takes courage to join a lone nut dancing on a hill, just like it would take courage to be an early adapter to the new HRIS.
Have you ever heard anyone proclaim, “Yippee! A new HR system for us to learn!? It’s going to save so much time! I can’t wait?” While saving time might be the outcome, no one outside of HR is ever on board quickly. That means, HR has to spend time planning ways to woo everyone to love the new system.
The same thing happens when Marketing and Production collaborate on a new product idea. Sales is only thrilled to have another item available if it’s clearly on-point. They’ll practically fight you on it too, right? Production will fight back because they don’t want any sold until they are 100% perfect, but Marketing wants to promote them because the sales cycle is long enough to perfect them in the meantime.
The dilemma goes round and round all the time. All. The. Time.
It’s hard to be the lone nut. It’s just as hard to be their first follower.
Have the courage to do something different and try new things. Life is not slowing down or getting simpler, so look for ways to bring ideas forward.
At minimum, resist the temptation to be an early or constant rejecter.
Celebrate those with guts and their first followers and enjoy the idea. Don’t worry, there will be time to ask questions and pick apart the idea soon enough Just don’t rush the criticism so often that no one even brings new ideas forward any more.
It’s going to be really hard to stay successful without any lone nuts dancing on hills as our world gets more complex.
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