Boretti, Inc.
Friday Quotes
One way to define creativity is to see what no one else sees.
Businesses are created daily to seek opportunities. While only 35% will be around in ten years, those that survive through financial sustainability and changing with the marketplace. Safety guides the business to be safely risk tolerant when needed and risk adverse to counter unnecessary danger.
The protection and advancement of human potential is the ultimate measure of success.
Look at any organization and you’ll see the power of success resides in the people within. While the largest recurring expense, it is also the greatest investment an organization makes. Protection of that asset by addressing risk ensures the longevity of success.
Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work
Business success can be related to the foundational understanding of purpose and goal; however, the biggest key element is how. Businesses don’t view limitations by regulatory guides; rather, it’s organizational methodology that makes it work.
Leaders grasp nettles.
Being a strong leader does not mean being difficult. Strength in leadership includes diligence in vision focus, nimble to adapt to your customer needs, learning as you go, and holding a positive character in response to hard decisions.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader
Leading is not easy, but it is essential for success. How leadership is executed makes a difference. No one single person is responsible for success: it takes a team. Without it, failure is assured.
Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals.
Success in safety is like success in business. Both take a vision, financial and human resource investment, and engagement. That’s more than speaking the language of business and alignment. Positive relationships with coaching creates the willingness to be involved.
Can’t fix safety in isolation.
A successful organization requires a team of people with the right skillsets and appropriate resources to achieve its goals. Each element of the successful organization influences the other, seeking to ensure they are heard and processes implemented to achieve their goal.
(Culture is) about repeatable systems that connect purpose to action every day, across every level of the business.
What makes a business sustainable are the systems within it. Systems aren’t written policies, they are processes that make the organization alive. How the work get’s done and why we do it shapes and involves the accepted, supported culture in the way we work.
We don’t need leaders to be perfect—we need them to be curious about their impact, open to feedback, and willing to grow.
Many times leaders fall short of their potential thinking they have to always be perfect, have all the answers, and right all the time. Leadership in safety is the same as it is in business, whereby “my way or the highway” doesn’t work in the end.
Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.
In business, just as in safety, leadership can take many forms. And while it’s appropriate to take different styles to fit the situation, one thing that’s constant is the taking care part. Leadership isn’t a demand, it’s an engagement.