{"id":2468,"date":"2016-07-07T16:08:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T21:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2016-06-11T16:12:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T21:12:19","slug":"leadership-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/leadership-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s Note: \u00a0The author Curtis Chocholous, a seasoned executive and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, has written a whitepaper on\u00a0The 80\/20 Law of Leadership, which is available for free on Flevy here<\/a>. \u00a0This whitepaper is based on Lean Culture thinking. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Every time you eat or drink, you\u2019re either feeding disease or fighting it.
\n– Heather Morgan, M.S., N.L.C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Morning<\/a>Optimal\u00a0health 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\u00a0Anti-aging expert Ron Rosedale, M.D.,\u00a0\u2018Your 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 \u2018dirty fuel\u2019 and fat ketones burn far cleaner causing far less oxidative damage.\u2019<\/em>\u00a0It is a proven fact that cancer loves sugar.<\/span><\/p>\n

Optimal\u00a0organizational 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\u2019s their friend, but practice complexity from end-to-end.<\/p>\n

Optimal\u00a0organizational fitness is indeed an inside job fueled by healthy relationship-building behaviors and work routines [interactive management process].<\/p>\n

Scientific medical studies have confirmed that\u00a080%<\/strong>\u00a0of the\u00a0$3T<\/strong>\u00a0(trillion) health care budget is caused by five behavioral issues: Eating, drinking, stress, smoking and lack of exercise. Poor\u00a0Leadership Fitness<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>causes\u00a080%<\/strong>\u00a0of the wasted human potential in every organization, which basically [mathematically] means\u00a020%<\/strong>\u00a0of all organizational leaders are simply \u2018unfit\u2019 to lead.<\/p>\n

Every CEO \u2013 starting with self \u2013 should make\u00a0Leadership Fitness\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>their top strategic priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s Note: \u00a0The author Curtis Chocholous, a seasoned executive and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, has written a whitepaper on\u00a0The 80\/20 Law of Leadership, which is available for free on Flevy here. \u00a0This whitepaper is based on Lean Culture thinking. \u00a0 * * * * Every time you eat or drink, you\u2019re either feeding disease… Leadership Fitness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-management-leadership","tag-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flevy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}