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Necessary endings by cloud1/2/2024 ![]() ![]() It is intentional toward a vision, desires, and objectives that have been clearly defined and are measurable. In your business and in your life, don’t just “cut back” and think that you have pruned. I have found this to be rampant in companies that have a high “people value.” The value is good, but sometimes it keeps them from doing what is truly valuing to people. So if no one ever leaves your organization or your life, then you are in some sort of denial and enabling some really sick stuff all over the place. ![]() The very nature of people is that there are some good ones who are not right for you, some sick ones in denial who are not going to change, and some who are adding nothing. ‐Location 506īut I do believe that there is some number of people in every organization and every life who will be routinely “let go” if leadership is doing its stewardship job. Instead of a to-‐do list, they have a to-‐do pile. They create more than they can focus on and feed, they are attached to every idea as if they were all equal, and they try to keep them all alive. This is especially tough for some creative people,causing them a lack of focus. So you always will have to choose between good and best. Some of those activities may be good, but they are taking up resources that your best ones need. It is in complete alignment with the reality that both businesses and individuals will begin, gather, and have more activities than they can reasonably sustain. This is the threefold formula for doing well in almost every arena of life. (3) If it’s clear that something is already dead, it is pruned. (2) If an endeavor is sick and is not going to get well, it is pruned. (1) If an initiative is siphoning off resources that could go to something with more promise, it is pruned. In business and in life, executing the three types of necessary endings described above is what characterizes people who get results. And when it comes to endings, there is no shortage of issues that keep people stuck. Leaders are people, and people have issues that get in the way of the best-‐made ideas, plans, and realities. The lesson: good cannot begin until bad ends. ![]() In many contexts, until we let go of what is not good, we will never find something that is good. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them. Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. In your business and perhaps your life, the tomorrow that you desire and envision may never come to pass if you do not end some things you are doing today. Necessary Endings gives readers the tools they need to say good-‐bye and move on. Knowing when and how to let go when something, or someone, isn’t working-a personal relationship, a job, or a business venture-is essential for happiness and success.
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