Many people have not really experienced even a moderate degree of synergy in their family life or in other interactions. Theyve been trained and scripted into defensive and protective communications or into believing that life and other people cant be trusted. This represents one of the great tragedies and wastes in life, because so much potential remains untapped – completely undeveloped and unused, Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives.
Stephen Covey Author & Consultant
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. What if a company saw part of its role as taking the initiative to help people step into and discover their potential. Sure – businesses exist to make money, but that’s such a shallow vision to have.
Business can and should be much deeper than that. What if they became places where people could discover potential – harness it – and become more effective.
It’s hard to becomer a firestarter. Companies tend to be boxed in places – where processes and lots of straight lines flow. But how many of the people that work around you are walking about with unused potential – simply because they have not connected to your company’s vision or mission? How many are simply there to collect a paycheck?
Wouldn’t things work better for everyone if we took the time to deeply connect the people working with us to our company’s mission and vision? I dare to say that few who work in companies know their mission statement. Fewer still have bought into it. Unused potential.
