Fly High
A line from a movie goes… “They can, because they think they can.”
We all have seen it a dozen times in movies… teams oozing with high morale running rings around the competition. While those teams give up in utter frustration even if they are good. There’s really power in a team running on high morale, like they’re on drugs.
Every leader wants his team to perform and hum at the highest level. When your people feel good about themselves, their performance rises to a whole new level. They stop nitpicking on problems and start focusing on the potential. They come more committed and more importantly, unselfish.
Teams with high morale keep moving forward. No problem, no matter how big, gets in the way, no race seems too long, no project too difficult. A team with low morale however, is hurt even by the most minor problem.
Teams with high morale build confidence, allowing them to take risks, be creative, try out new ideas, new concepts driving so much innovation.
But how do you put your team on overdrive?
One thing great about building high morale is that it doesn’t take a lot of money. As I’ve always believed in the past, “money is the lowest form of motivation”. Even if I doubled your salary but treated you like trash everyday, you’d never excel. Building high morale takes leadership and sincerity.
Morale comes from you, as a leader making your people believe they are part of a winning team and that they play a special part in achieving something great.
Look at your team, and take out your morale meter. Have you lifted them up? Or have you beaten them down? If you want to steer your team to greatness, you have to get them moving first. You can’t steer a parked car, can you? And the higher the morale, the faster they move, upwards.
And as for me, I’ve always believed that the best way to motivate people is to make work simply “fun” or just like “playing.” As John Maxwell said, winning teams have two things in common:
And no. 1 is they play to win. Second, they have a winning attitude – they believe in themselves, their teammates and their dreams. They never allow negative thinking to derail them.
So, starting today, start making people feel good about themselves and make a diff. If you do, you’ll never be able to stop how high you can fly.
posted by Butch Jimenez @ 10:10 AM
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Importance of the Abortion Issue: It's life and death, to be sure!
Painless abortion should be the objective of all just as painless death is the objective in death penalty cases, or euthanasia is in animals or end of life decisions, or painless births in obstetrics.
Why such distinction is made for abortion alone is illogical even including questions of morality that are inclined to be injected into public debate.
Women should not be forced to have children if they are unwanted any more than elders should be euthanized if unwanted. Is there a real difference?
Commitment to life and its necessary decision making seems to be the absent debate that concerns all issues of life and death, including that recognized as partial birth abortion in humans.
It's not clear whether forced pregnancies in animals carry the same humane morality questions but it is possible that they do, and that forced breeding that may be harmful to animals carries the same negative humanistic stigma.
If humans are not able to justify pain, what good is medical industry to cure disease and end pain for the ill and disabled?
Logic demands that the issue be fully and comprehensively analyzed if morality is to be the standard by which such questions are judged, and more realistically, by standards that don't include morality.
Justice cannot afford the luxury of irrational moral relevance over consistency.
If abortion cannot be painless, perhaps forced vasectomies fit that criteria.
Human life cannot afford to be accidental.
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