If there’s one thing I’ve learned in life, especially in building high-performance cultures, it’s this:
Structure + discipline = success.
As a rule, there is no lack of clever concepts. On the contrary: too many of them are always produced, only to want far too much at once. This is why Kolbusa’s HERO principles and the implementation code are focused on a few, but decisive points. Many people will quickly grasp the concept, but only a few will really manage to implement it in its entirety and really make significant gains in implementation strength.
There are two reasons for this:
1. change is no fun.
2. most people dislike discipline.
That doesn’t exactly sound motivating. But one thing at a time:
Why isn’t change fun?
It’s as simple as that. It’s not the things we enjoy that move us forward, but the things we have to overcome ourselves to do!
The “fun” comes when you simply leave things out, for example, in terms of speed.
Or when you overcome yourself (courage) to make a critical statement in a meeting, which is then met with openness in practice, so that you feel pride and perceive this as happiness and thus as motivation to behave in the same way in the future.
That’s really fun! But you have to get into this “angel cycle” first – and that’s no fun. Don’t kid yourself about this!
Why do most people dislike discipline?
Here, too, you should not get the wrong idea:
It takes discipline to establish the four HERO principles and the implementation code.
This means constantly addressing issues, staying on the ball, constantly challenging each other, criticizing each other and motivating each other to adhere to the principles.
This takes willpower, which pays off in the form of enormous competitive strength, but which must first be mustered.
It’s like running: Anyone who resolves to run three times a week at six o’clock in the morning before work thinks it’s a great idea! But when the alarm clock rings at five o’clock after a somewhat shortened or restless, less restful night, the question arises:
- What now?
- Keep at it?
- Being disciplined?
Let’s hope the answer is yes! Otherwise, we’ll be done with running in no time, because an excuse and our comfort can quickly ruin our good intentions.
The same applies to the principles relating to implementation strength:
If there is pressure to deliver results, the project is getting out of hand and you decide to just make announcements and do your thing, and you don’t feel like being open and trusting, then that’s it!
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