The Zero personality Lacks integrity.
Integrity is being true to oneself at all times. More like doing the right thing even when no one is there to see you do it or if no one will ever know if what you did was right or not and you still go ahead and do the right thing.
A zero would tell you what it feels you want to hear even when it knows that that information is incorrect or distorted or that such information could destroy you probably because you cannot manage such information.
An example was a financial institution I used to work with a little while back. The information I gathered was that sometime back then the managing director did not realize that the employees were not satisfied with their salaries; the story then was that whenever he asked his management staff if the pay was good they would tell him that it was the best in the industry and he did not bother to double check. This went on for a while until staff turnover was hitting the roof and key management staffs were now resigning. But the bubble burst when he confronted a management staff who had just resigned and in all he said, it was like ‘why have you decided to stab me in the back after all the great things I have done for you’ This employee now could not control herself and just said all sorts to him in a rage to the point of how sickening his company’s pay was and this was at a management meeting. This was when he went to double check and found out that indeed his pay compared to the industry average was appalling and took immediate steps to rectify and pacify the situation which led to a good drop in staff turnover and other management staff not moving on.
In the story above, one would say that he should swipe the management for lying to him but we need to look at both sides of the coin before deciding on this because like many CEO’s, are you sure he encourages people telling him the true situation of things?
Some CEO’S actually do not know when they start doing this especially when success starts becoming their middle name, but they should watch it because this is a behavior of a zero personality which as we just saw would have led to the demise of a great company.
But coming back to our topic, because of the zeros that formed the management of that company, they did not tell the CEO the truth with respect to the poor salary for which reason the company had lost key staff and would have gone under.
This brings to fore a key question - As a CEO, what kind of managers do you have? What kind of a leader are you?
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LEADERSHIP NUGGETS with Oluwaseun Osibo
COMFORT ZONE SYNDROME
There was once a king, who received a gift of two magnificent falcons from Arabia. They were peregrine falcons, the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. He gave the precious birds to his head falconer to be trained. Months passed and one day the head falconer informed the king that though one of the falcons was flying majestically, soaring high in the sky, the other bird had not moved from its branch, since the day it had arrived. The king summoned healers from all the land to tend to the falcon, but no one could make the bird fly. He presented the task to a member of his court, but the next day, the king saw through the palace window that the bird had still not moved from its perch. Having tried everything else, the king thought to himself, "May be I need someone more familiar with the countryside to understand the nature of this problem." So he cried out to his court, "Go and get a farmer." In the morning, the king was thrilled to see the falcon soaring high above the palace gardens. He said to his court, "Bring me the doer of this miracle." The court quickly located the farmer, who came and stood before the king. The king asked him, "How did you make the falcon fly?" With his head bowed, the farmer said to the king, " It was very easy, your highness. I simply cut the branch, where the bird was sitting."
Nugget
We were all made to fly but we need to realize this incredible potential as human beings. We cannot afford to sit on our branches, clinging to the familiar things in our lives. The possibilities of this world are endless, but for most people, these remain undiscovered. When we conform to the familiar, the comfortable and the mundane, we miss out on God's best for our lives and settle for mediocrity, instead of an exciting, thrilling and fulfilling life. This week, we must learn to destroy the branch of fear and the other things we cling to so as to free ourselves to the glory of flight. The best days are still ahead of you. God always has His best in mind for you only if you can acknowledge and take advantage of them through the principle of recognition. Your gifts will surely make room for you as you cash in on your windows of opportunities in 2011!
