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Leadership Fitness
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Every time you eat or drink, you’re either feeding disease or fighting it.
– Heather Morgan, M.S., N.L.C.
Optimal health begins on the inside. Exercise is an important part of any fitness journey, but the most critical element to achieving good health comes from the food [fuel] we eat and drink. According to Anti-aging expert Ron Rosedale, M.D., ‘Your health and likely your lifespan will be determined by the proportion of fat versus sugar you burn over a lifetime. This is largely because sugar is a ‘dirty fuel’ and fat ketones burn far cleaner causing far less oxidative damage.’ It is a proven fact that cancer loves sugar.
Optimal organizational health also begins on the inside. Organizational well-being will ultimately be determined by the factors that positively and negatively impact relational capacity [how safe we feel interacting with one another]. Humans thrive emotionally, intellectually and physiologically within a healthy community. Organizations today [especially large matrix structured companies] are often heavily burdened with relational pollution caused by the political propaganda of false hope, unrealistic goals and objectives, creating the impossible job and many other cover-your-tail practices that dilute a vast amount of human potential. Favorable stock price trends commonly mask the ills of internal issues caused by top-down leadership practices. These same leaders speak of simplicity as though it’s their friend, but practice complexity from end-to-end.
Optimal organizational fitness is indeed an inside job fueled by healthy relationship-building behaviors and work routines [interactive management process].
Scientific medical studies have confirmed that 80% of the $3T (trillion) health care budget is caused by five behavioral issues: Eating, drinking, stress, smoking and lack of exercise. Poor Leadership Fitness causes 80% of the wasted human potential in every organization, which basically [mathematically] means 20% of all organizational leaders are simply ‘unfit’ to lead.
Every CEO – starting with self – should make Leadership Fitness their top strategic priority.
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This checklist has 48 questions which you can rate on a 1 to 5 scale to understand the current culture of your organisation and set goals for improvement.
It focuses on the following:
Purpose, Values, Urgency, Trust, Competence, Customer Focus,Systems, Structure, Score Keeping and [read more]
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Organizational Culture, also referred to as Corporate Culture or Company Culture, is the set of underlying and shared beliefs, vision, assumptions, values, habits, business philosophies, and ways of interacting that contribute to the unique social and psychological environment of the organization.
Organizational Culture permeates the organization, affecting all functions and all levels. It starts with what employees do and how they do it—and ultimately drives why employees do what they do. Culture is like the DNA of the organization.
That is why a healthy Company Culture leads to strong Performance, Growth, and Excellence—and the opposite is also true. For any initiative to be successful, we need a Corporate Culture that inherently supports that initiative.
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About Curtis Chocholous
Curtis Chocholous is the Founder of Pulse, Business Dashboards & Management Process. After his three-decade career across multiple industries responsible for plant management, supply chain and continuous improvement, Mr. Chocholous decided it was time for a change and charted a new course to strengthen entrepreneurial companies. He believes that an organization’s culture, much like family culture, should be invested in daily to ensure healthy, productive and prosperous growth. Curtis currently resides in Springboro, Ohio with his wife Laurie. You can download his free whitepaper on the 80/20 Law of Leadership on Flevy here.
