Are you pushing hard enough? Are you challenging your employees,  management, leaders, clients and yourself? Or are you playing it safe? If you want to move people you have to challenge them.

I’m not interested in politics but I found this interesting. There’s a short but thought provoking piece pointed to be Daring Fireball http://daringfireball.net/:

As you may know, the House of Representatives passed a health care reform bill last night, 220 to 215. 39 Democrats voted against it. The fact that the Democrats couldn’t get everyone on board is being treated as a flaw in their strategy when in fact I’m sure their leadership sees it as the key.

Every vote over the minimum necessary to secure passage represents compromises that the Democrats as a group would prefer not to make. It’s not that Nancy Pelosi was lucky to pass the bill, it’s that the Democrats wrote the strongest bill they could that would get enough votes to pass.

via rc3.org – Close votes are a feature, not a bug.

Are you doing just enough to get by? Do you propose plans that you know everyone will buy off on or the plans that you *should* be doing? Even if others won’t like it.

It’s human nature to avoid confrontation, do what’s easiest. Especially if you’ve pushed for years and gained no ground, it’s easy to stop pushing after a while.

Well guess what? Now’s the time to start pushing again. Hard

But we have to understand that this can be scary. It requires people do things they may not be comfortable with. You need to have a really good reason for them to put themselves at risks. Even if it’s just a perceived risk.

BTW, Zemanta recommended The Strategy Paradox as the image for this post and it’s really a great book. I highly recommend it.

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