“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”
– Theodor Roosevelt
Today we have many unhappy people as well as not really successful leaders.
Why?
Because many leaders focus more on money rather than on people’s development. It seems that some leaders afraid of developed subordinates or they simply don’t care about people and don’t care about customers.
Those leaders care more about productivity by using a cheap workforce and focused more on themselves. And very often we can see around us an organization that mostly stay on a “Positional level of leadership” where people follow their leaders because they have to, and because they have no chose, this is why they have to follow.
People very often want to bring their leaders and their organizations to the next level of leadership to the “Permission level”, where people follow their leaders because they want to, and people come with a new great ideas and new approaches, but their leaders do not accept their ideas, even if a new idea will be accepted in a “Positional company”, leaders continue to do not care about their people.
As a result these talented people with a great enthusiasm in a non-growing organization, they leave those organizations. It happens because people want to grow and they want to develop their ideas in a successful organization where leaders care about people and where a team environment is pleasant. And these talented people want to grow and be appreciated for the talents they bring to the team. But some leaders just don’t care.
Sometimes some leaders tell me “Alex you just want to be successful through the success of my company this is why you want to help me…..”
For this kinds of leaders my answer is: “Dear leader you have to understand just one simple thing, is that I care only about your people at your organization, neither do I care about you nor me. I do care about your people because your people want to grow and they want to grow you, but you don’t hear you people and you don’t care about your people and this is why they do not care for you either, what makes your people unhappy.
And because of the poor leadership in your organization, it brings your organization and you to the non-growing environment. As a result non-growing people leave non-growing organizations and their non-growing leaders.
A long time ago when I was doing my research while I was working in different organizations I was in the same situations as your employees are and I totally understand what your employees feel while they work in such tremendous environment. At the same time as a leader, you have to understand, that your employees bring you to success.
You can be successful, but only then, if you will change your mindset and think more what you can do for your people and how you can grow your people, and how you can serve them. And remember, your people bring your organization to success. It will be a great achievement for you. So, It’s not about to make me successful, it’s all about making you, successful. I just help you to serve your people who will bring your organization to success.
And of course, if I will be able to make you successful, I will be successful too, because your success and mine come through collaborative work with each other.
My goal is to create as many successful people and organizations as possible. So, my business is to make other people more successful and to grow you, your teams and your business.
In other words, I would say I’m a successful team’s creator and successful people’s grower.
Some people have asked me “Alexandr, why do you spend so much of your time and your energy on growing other people even if they don’t care for themselves?”
And you know what usually my answer is? “The most important point for me is that those people have a great desire and discipline and if so, they are willing to be successful and I don’t care if they care for themselves or not, my job is to bring my message to them, to show them the way and opportunities, to unlock their abilities and talents and to place them in the right spot where people will be more productive, more successful and happy. And if I will be able to do that, my mission on this earth will be carried out in accordance with my destiny and my talent which I received from God.
One of my favorite proverb is: “The greatest shot of adrenaline is not when you skydiving or bangy jumping, neither car racing, it’s when you make other people grow”.
Let me know in comments or on social media if You care about Your people.
