Your Firm's Culture of Courage

Intro

Your culture of courage will dictate your company’s level of success.

Over time, the skills, experience, technological understanding diminish, so what’s left?

Your willingness to step up, step out, and take risks. You’re willingness go against the grain to call shit out. See it like it is, and address it like it is.

You’re no longer the best, the expert, executing as much, and may not be as innovative compared to up and coming talent.

But you’re bringing leadership with the power of clarity, conviction, and community, driven by vision and purpose.

The Story
Your level of courage directly impacts your ability to lead at this level.
It takes courage to crush mediocrity, to weed out bad apples, and to intentionally inject a little bit of chaos to improve the overall system. As you work with improving your firm and you still see things are just not where they need to be, it could be you’re not doing enough of the right things, or wuth the necessary level of depth—that’s how you learn and iterate, even at this level.

You’re not doing it right, and you’re finding different, deeper areas that are not working. This is what you want—solving issues leads to identifying deeper issues.

Anyone can make surface level changes, whether it’s spot, implement, or lead lead them, it’s the underneath where the next level leaders really step up. Underneath the obvious is where you find the transformative change.

How?

Unleashing curiosity, almost uncomfortable with you asking why, when, how, who…To have the team walk you through the context of the background for the logic, the decision-making, digging to the root of the status quo to validate if it even makes sense at this point in time.

All of this is only possible with the right culture, either having it or building it, so that self-protection does not block progress. Self-protection of a kingdom or queendom doesn’t allow for flushing out the status quo that is holding your business back, digging out the mediocrity, the acceptance of okay, the acceptance of good enough.

This isn’t about perfection. Perfectionism is unattainable, but the pursuit of excellence, the pursuit of perfection pushes you in the right areas of your business that transform how you operate and grow.

Accepting that perfection is not attainable, but is worth pursuing excellence is a step towards leadership courage.

Without some base level of courage or an increasing aptitude for courage, leadership is ineffective at best, even worse, it could be damaging an injecting disease into your organization.

Closing

How can you establish a culture of this nature by letting go of the fear that is unhealthy?

By celebrating those who stand out, stand alone, take healthy risks and by empowering others to make qualified decisions to run their department, their group or team, and ultimately do their job to support the business.

Unleashed courage by unleashing potential.

Grow a culture of courage by growing your people to grow your business.

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