We featured this quote last year when the Red Sox became the 2013 World Series Champs. I thought of it while working with a team littered with people who rolled their eyes a lot, complained openly about the owner and made snide remarks about “the way this company does things”. Whenever positions became open, these same people claimed that no one was interested. “No one wants to work here”, they said. These people – they were great people, talented people. But if they were ever excited about being on the team, doing what the team did, they had lost it. And then – they were gone.
As leaders-left-behind worked to replace those who had left, talking with candidates about the opportunities ahead, people got excited. And all of the sudden there were lots of people interested in being on the team. And whenever the leaders said, “We only want to hire people who WANT to be here, who are excited about the opportunity!”, prospective and current team members became more excited and clearly embraced the opportunities.
All the difference in the world.
Read more about it in How To Go From Worst to First.
Instructions for downloading, printing and posting this week’s quote…. Post it on your computer (see instructions below). Post it everywhere as a reminder to get yourself and your team out of the dark. A terrific strategy for boosting morale, productivity and overall performance.
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You can post the above quote to your computer screen with just three clicks.
1. Click on the image above. Don’t see an image? Try this link.
2. Right click on the image that appears.
3. On the pull down menu that appears, click on “set as background”.
Voila! There’s still plenty of room on the left side of the screen for all your shortcut icons.
Note: When ready to change your wallpaper, go to your control panel. Select “Display”. Select “Desktop”. And then choose from the designs offered.” Or print the PDF versions below. Just click on the printer icon in lower right corner of the image.
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