Leading Ideas: Don’t Let Talk Parade as Action
Doug takes a moment to talk about something that many people are guilty of: Reading something great….and doing nothing different.“Consider This:
It’s subtle and pervasive in many corporate cultures. Talk substituting for action. I’ve often found a frequent offender to be the manager who’s gung-ho about a new management book. He likes the concepts. He talks about them often. He gets others to read the book. They like them too. The book’s jargon makes its way into their everyday language. Everyone’s excited to be on board with the latest management thinking. Amidst the excitement, everyone fails to realize a simple fact. They’re not actually putting the concepts into practice. They’re just talking about them. Eventually cynicism follows the delusion because nothing really changes. The book is put on the shelf. Then someone finds a new book…”
As Zig Ziglar often says “The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won’t work–if you won’t.”