2 Thoughts - Sell or Tune-Up

Broken Machines

Every Spring, it seems like the grass just seems to grow.  Which leads to a discussion about mowing it, which leads to a discussion about how the lawn mower is broken - the blades are dull, the battery died, a mouse chewed some wires.  And my husband inevitably says, "We should just sell it and get a new one."

#1: New is not better

We don’t need to drop thousands of dollars on a new lawnmower. What we need to do is take it into the professionals to give it a tune up and to get it fixed up and repaired and give it what it needs to do its job well.

#2: Leaders need tune-ups too

I trained 2 leadership teams last week and we spent time locked in a room, talking through what makes them good and makes them tough to work with, why their team does what it does, and I guarantee they walked out of there better leaders than when they walked in.

#3: Train your leaders

It’s not new people. It’s not more people. It’s better use of the people that you have.  You could spend $20k this year on true leadership training and it would be cheaper than replacing one leader.