Why Brexit is a Disaster in Leadership and Vision
Brexit, Business and Leadership
I'm not happy.
In fact, I'm angry.
I'm furious.
I'm livid.
But this is not purely a political post but there's political reference in it because we're in the most unstable times in living memory.
Brexit is what I'm talking about.
Now, we've got a prime minister who is one of the worst prime ministers. in living memory at best.
Backed up by a government, a cabinet who seem to be on the same kind of level as her.
Almost worse than that.
The opposition is so bad.
It's keeping a terrible government in power.
One of the worst leaders on both sides of the house in parliament's in this country.
Honestly I was reminded this morning of an interview Theresa May gave some time ago…
When asked what sort of Brexit does she want… a soft brexit or a hard brexit, and she said I want a red white and blue Brexit!!
What even is that??!??
What is that??
Now leadership is about a vision.
It's about plan.
It's about taking action.
Driving whatever it is that your leading forward towards that goal with that plan in place.
If you've got a namby-pamby wishy-washy goal that you don't believe in how is everyone else going to believe in it?
How do you negotiate for a deal that you don't believe in and you don't want?
How do you do it without the right planning?
How do you do it without being bold and brave and aggressive and getting what you want out of it?
Now that's probably enough about brexit because it's not good for the old ticker at my age, but it's got so much relevance to business as well.
Without a plan without real leadership without taking steps every single day to make sure you're moving towards that goal.
You don't know where you're going do you and it also applies down a level as well to sales… sales is all about taking steps knowing where you want to be.
That's what targets are all about and trying to smash those targets.
It starts with one day at a time one piece of actual implementation with a plan to get there.
You got to have absolute FOCUS… absolute DRIVE….
To know where you're going and implement every single bloody day.
Sales is not easy sales is incredibly tough.
And you got to leverage every tool you've got in your arsenal to make sure you get there now for me the best way to do that right now is social selling and it's leveraging 565 million (and counting) people on LinkedIn
It's using emails, using the telephone, using every single touch point to make sure you connect with the people that you want to talk to.
Delivering the right message to those people so you're conveying your expertise and your opinions.
Whatever it is that your customers want to know that you're all about.
You've got those tools to do that for free, and also if you can't do it yourself, you can delegate it to a specialist provider or hire specialists people in your team as well to make sure you're doing it every single day.
Have a vision have a goal have a plan, implement and be aggressive, be persistent, be tenacious to get where you want to be.
Having a wishy-washy, non-plan, not believing in your products and services…
How you going to sell them?
How do we go to the EU and sell something we don't believe in…
How do you go to your prospects and your customers and sell products and services that you believe in?
I remember reading a book some years ago about a sales leader who said he makes every one of his sales people buy and use the products that he or she is selling to make sure they test them, they know them, they understand them inside out.
They get the benefits of them.
So when they go and see their prospects, they're bought into it themselves!
It's infectious energy enthusiasm is infectious.
You've got to believe in what you do.
You've got to have a plan.
You've got to have an implementation strategy to make it happen.
I need to go and have a sit-down.
Sorry it's all a bit too stressful today.
Hope you feel the same way.
Let me know what you think in the comments below.
Implement have a great day talk to you soon.
My name is Stefan Boyle.
Take care. Bye.
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