“When it comes to promotions, it’s about who knows you, not who you know.”
– Anand Tamboli, Harvard Business Review
The idea that people you know will promote you, while good, leads to stagnation. Instead, ensuring the key people you need for success know you will lead to greater recognition and growth. Success is created through action that develops relationships, not the solo flyer. It takes a team.
Business and safety: many times the two clash; however, when the ideas of prevention are aligned with business focus, they become action.
While businesses have processes and procedures to accomplish the tasks that assure results, its leadership in allowing a positive culture to thrive that drives success. Positive cultures are safe cultures not only set by a safe work environment, they are set by people feeling it’s safe to bring up the tough things, not just what’s going right. Actions that demonstrate respect, trust, and value for each person’s contribution creates and sustains a great culture both in good times and bad.
To succeed in business requires tenacity and diligence. Success depends upon understanding the market and delivering the wants and needs in a manner that engages and increases uptake.