Anything other than that is simply a wish that comes from your desires. Hope comes from a real, objective reason that the future is going to be different from the past. In our organization especially, we strive to show grace and be hopeful, but there is a big difference between hoping and wishing. If not, am I willing to sign up for more of the same? Is there anything in place that would make it different?Ĥ. They are great questions for a team to ask itself about key people decisions, as well as specific strategies and or projects:ģ. These four questions can help you see reality. And like rosebushes, your business and your life also need the same three types of pruning to be all that you desire. But if not adequately pruned, they never make it. They are designed for incredible beauty and lushness. By nature, there is nothing average about them at all. ![]() If you think about it, there should never be an average rosebush. Without it, they are just average at best and far less than they were designed to be. Pruning enables rosebushes to realize full potential. To give healthy blooms and branches room and an unobstructed path to grow, the dead ones are cut away. The healthy branches need room to reach their full length and height, but they cannot spread when dead branches force them to bend and turn corners. Dead branches that are taking up space needed for the healthy ones to thrive. The plant is now fully on mission, focusing its energy every day on feeding and growing the buds that are destined to reach full bloom and maturity. As a result, the bush now has even more fuel to pour into the healthy buds. For whatever reason, they are not going to recover and become what he needs them to be to create the final picture of beauty he wants for the bush in the garden. While the gardener may monitor, fertilize, and nurture diseased branches, he realizes that more water, more fertilizer, or more care is just not going to help. Sick branches that are not going to get well. Without the endings, you’d never get the best roses.Ģ. The plant wouldn’t be able to produce full, mature blooms without pruning. The caretaker constantly examines the bush to see which buds are worthy of the plant’s limited fuel and support and cuts the others away. In order for the bush to thrive, a certain number of buds have to go. The plant has enough life and resources to feed and nurture only so many buds to their full potential it can’t bring all of them to full bloom. Rosebushes and other plants produce more buds than the plant can sustain. ![]() Healthy buds or branches that are not the best ones. The gardener intentionally and purposefully cuts off branches and buds that fall into any of three categories: 1. It turns out that a rosebush, like many other plants, cannot reach its full potential without a systematic process of pruning. Pruning is the process of proactive endings. If you’ve ever seen a healthy rosebush with its vibrant, fully mature blooms, you know the admiration that the one who nurtured that beauty deserves. We may have read this passage before, but focus on the prevalent role of endings throughout: A message in Ecclesiastes says there is a season for things to begin and a season for things to end, and that’s how life works. In both normal life and life gone wrong, ends are a necessity. They come about not in the pursuit of growth, but because something has gone wrong. Some endings are not a next natural step but are just as necessary. Sometimes it means employees have to be let go too. To get to the next level and often even to sustain their companies’ current level of health, leaders must shut down yesteryear’s good ideas, strategies, or involvements in order to have the resources and focus to take their organizations to tomorrow. Endings are not a tragedy, but a natural part of the universe, and our life and business must face them, stagnate, or die. ![]() In our business and our life, the tomorrow that we desire may never come to pass if we do not end some things we are doing today. This article is found in the Betenbough Companies Leader’s Guide and includes excerpts from Dr.
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