This week, most of you will be getting together with relatives. For many, being with relatives can be pretty stressful.
Why? Because you are related … but different.
You are related, which means that your DNA has some familial markers. You have common experiences.
But, you are different. In most cases, very different! You grew up in the same environment, but now have totally different values. You have the same parents, but now have opposing worldviews. You used to be inseparable, but now barely speak.
For the next week or so, everyone will have to put aside their differences, and come together as a family. Everyone must put “we before me.”
Now, if this is hard for families to do for one week, imagine just how absurd it is to ask unrelated … and very different people to come together to build an organization.
To do this, leaders must find common ground with such force, clarity, and intensity that it unifies unrelated people.
That is why we use the word “One” over and over again. We advise clients to develop One Strategy, One Vision, One Defining Differentiation, One Destination, One DNA, One Dashboard, One Culture, One Playbook, (and more). We have found that this level of clarity and precision is essential to bringing people together.
So they can work as One Team!
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