How have you dealt with your limiting constraints?  Were you successful?

In Scott Beck’s address to the team at Envysion, he shared two specific strategies that he has utilized at the companies he has founded and led.  Thanks again, Scott, for sharing your insights!

Alignment

The alignment of a company is of utmost importance.  And it does take long for it to become unravelled.  We need to know ourselves.  If we have a relative weakness, as a company, we need to align our resources and efforts to improve.

Of course aligning resources is a top concern for the leaders of an organization.  However, it does not stop there.  We all have a responsibility, especially in start-up companies, to contribute.  If 80% of the company waits for 20% to improve, without assisting, 100% of the organization suffers.

Energy

Scott has perceived that energy in an organization is shared.  All employees contribute to the environment.  They either consume energy, are energy neutral, or create energy.

All employees need to ask themselves “What is my job?”  The answer is not only to competently perform the duties as detailed in my job description.  An organization requires more of their people.  We all need to remind ourselves that we are responsible for contributing in other ways, including adding positively to the energy and culture of the organization.

As Scott stated so succinctly, “Create contagious enthusiasm!”