Louis CarterFounder and Chief Executive Officer, Best Practice Institute · Founder and CEO, Best Practice Institute - Most Loved Workplace® | Organizational Psychologist | Creator of AI Workplace Intelligence and Employer Branding Platform

Let Go in Order to Move Forward

5 Jan 2018 · 1 min

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In this brief motivational talk, the speaker addresses senior executives about the importance of personal transformation as the first step toward organizational change. He contrasts two approaches: one where leaders change themselves first and then design programs, and another where they remain stuck in complaining, blaming, and making excuses. He observes that individuals who habitually blame and complain carry those patterns into every new organization they join, creating a self‑reinforcing cycle. The speaker urges listeners to identify and let go of the whining and blaming that hold them back, arguing that releasing these negative habits creates momentum and enables them to become the person—and leader—they aspire to be, ultimately driving forward the future they desire for their organizations.

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For many years, I've worked with senior executives who have all different types of things that they want to achieve in their organization. One way that people begin to, to create change is by changing themselves first. And then they go ahead and they make programs inside of their organizations. The other way is complaining, excuses, blaming. I found time and again that the people who have complaining, blaming, and excuses typically have those blaming and excuses anywhere they go, because everywhere they go, there they are. And they call me back time and again at different organizations that they join, and the same thing pops up over and over again. What I encourage and want you to do and everybody to do is to think about what you need to let go of in order to move forward into the person you want to become. Because if you can let go of the whining and complaining, you certainly can move on and create momentum to the future you want.