Bryan Cressey explains why most workers are disengaged and how to fix it. Recruit genuine team players, assemble complementary strengths like facets of a diamond, and give them a bold customer-focused mission no one else has tackled. A compelling purpose fuels enthusiasm and innovation.
You know that most people I found are bored with their jobs. I'm guessing 80 or 90%, sadly, of people in America are bored. And what happens when you come with a great mission that's a challenge and going to be an adventure trying to make it happen? Great people want to leave a boring job and get with that team. Your team. The winning team. And that's how you make it happen. Great people are magically attracted to the great vision that's going to benefit the world, benefit customers, the community, and your teammates. What you want to do in building a team, whether it's in sports or in business, in volunteering and charity, anywhere, in building a team, You first want to recruit the right people, of course, but what do you look at first? Are they team players? Do they give each other credit, or are they egotistical and arrogant? You do not want them with you because they're not team players. Teams win. Individuals cannot keep up with a well-functioning team. So you recruit people For being very team-oriented and believing teams create success. Secondly, you recruit people with different strengths. Now, with everyone being a team player, they will forgive weaknesses of other teammates and extol and admire their talents and what they do well. So, but get people with different talents. When you do that, if each person you think of is one facet of a diamond, that is their talent. And you have 20 people, it's like a diamond that shines brilliantly with 20 different facets, reflecting light in all directions. Well-rounded, gorgeous. That's your team. That's what you can build by getting people. With different talents. And then next, when you have the team put together, you want to inspire them. You inspire them with a great mission that's beneficial, not just to the team, but to the customers, the patients that are being treated, customers that are being served. You put yourself in their shoes, care about them, and then talk about what could we do that's great? Come up with a mission that others haven't accomplished yet. It's a tougher challenge, and your team will love the adventure of innovating and trying to become that dream that no one else has done yet. Your whole team will be running hard and innovating towards that and loving it.
Bryan Cressey, co-founder of 4 of the most successful private equity firms in the United States. is one of the country's most influential business minds. He's an innovative builder of companies and leadership talent, and he's on a mission to help you become financially successful, personally fulfilled, and enthusiastic about life. Available at Amazon and all major booksellers.
