Success Winston Style

For tough times some inspiration - Churchill 1941 - Harrow School - Supposedly Speaking on Success

As the story goes... the school members were sitting in anxious anticipation... there is a great sense of awe and drama as Churchill strolled into the auditorium... he approaches the center of the stage... purposefully removes his bowler hat and the cigar from his mouth... props his cane against the lectern... pauses.... gazes for some time at the hushed assembly... and finally says...

Success... "Never give in. [pauses]  Never give in. [pauses] Never, never, never - on nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in, except to the convictions of your own honor and good sense."

He then replaces his hat... picks up his cane... takes a puff of his cigar and leaves the stage!

Credited as one of his shortest and perhaps one of his most powerful speeches... apt for now perhaps!

Ric - orglearn

Getting Squeezed by Your Employer

"More employers are using the recession as an excuse to roll back employee benefits, force unpaid time off or fire workers."

quote: from article “This is the worst I’ve ever seen it,” said Lewis Maltby, president of the National Workrights Institute [assume US], about the number of employers “squeezing” employees in the name of a bad economy. :end quote

Interesting read the full article is at:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30154965/

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Ric-orglearn

Leaders in Tough Times - Remember Maslow?

Maslow

‘Basic human needs are arranged in a hierarchical order’

Townsend

“Individuals constantly move up and down the pyramid depending on how the perceive their current and potential situation”

According to Maslow ‘there are two major groups of human needs: basic including physiological, such as food, water, and sleep and psychological, such as affection, security, and self-esteem. These basic needs are also called deficiency needs because if an individual does not meet them, then that person will strive to make up the deficiency.’

‘The higher needs are called growth needs. These include such things as justice, ‘goodness’, order, unity, glamour, status, beauty and self-fulfillment. Deficiency needs Maslow argued take priority over growth needs. People who lack food or water cannot attend to justice or beauty.’

So in the current climate leaders will need to concentrate on making their followers feel ‘secure’. I would be searching for articles on “motivation”  (Google) and be keeping this issue at the top of my (your) mind over the next 12 - 24 months. Now is the time to be carefully listening to the concerns of your followers and perhaps taking on the “leader as servant” advice.

This is the third time I have been through this situation and it reminds me of how everyone feels during a merger or takeover. During stressful times all questions about work or the company are really just one question in many disguises. What is that question… “What’s going to happen to me”?

This worldwide situation is a paradigm shift and ‘when there is a paradigm shift everyone goes back to zero’ - Joel Barker

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Maslow’s Needs Hierarchy

Self–actualization

Growth, Achieving one’s potential, Self-fulfillment

Self Esteem

Self Respect, Status, Recognition, Autonomy, Achievement

Social

Belonging, Social Activities, Love and Affection, Acceptance and Friendship

***Safety

Security, Protection from danger both physical and emotional

***Physiological

Hunger, Thirst, Sleep, Shelter, Sex and other bodily needs

Ric

Richard Townsend

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