NO ZOMBIES
Most popular writers got on the Zombie bandwagon years ago. As usual, I am a later-adopter, but I finally see the relevance of these not living/not dead entities to our common endeavor to make leadership relevant.
We are faced with Zombies every day - people who are slavishly animated to accomplish meaningless goals (eating flesh/meeting irrelevant objectives), constantly moving forward at a trudge, always hungry (for feedback) and pasty from not playing outside enough with the people they love. So, I humbly suggest the following:
No more Zombies.
No more waiting to ask for permission.
No more waiting for the cavalry - you are the cavalry.
No more looking for someone else to start implementing change...you do it.
Remember, I said implementing, not massive transformational I might get firedchange. Start here, build successes for leverage later.
Don't be a Zombie. Feed yourself by requesting feedback from important stakeholders and setting full spectrum benchmarks so you can self-coach.
No Zombie trudge. Set your sights on what makes a difference for you, then steadily run toward it...with passion.
No Zombie lifestyle. Get outside and breath. Deeply and slowly......now fast and hard while you run, walk, roll, creep, crawl, swim or float. Enjoy the moment and enjoy the energy flow taking you toward your dreams while you are alive in the present. I promise that your non-zombie get-it-done task completer self is still purring along beneath the surface. Show up for work early tomorrow.
Have you ever noticed how self-centered zombies are? Its always about each of them, never about " no, you eat first". Its-all-about-me is the Zombie Way. So...
No Zombies. Let's help each other get ahead and then pull the next colleague up. That's real leadership.
No Zombies. That's Innovation.
Originally posted here.
