The 7 Radical Laws of Business

That the Business Visionary Will Practice

from The Lowry Notes (http://www.sherrylowry.com/ln.htm )

An invaluable set of references for professional business coaches and consultants is cleverly also named A Guidebook For Visionaries With Their Feet On The Ground: The Corporate Mystic by Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., and it speaks of 12 characteristics of 21st century leaders who will influence through

integrity, vision, and the use of intuition. This sounds quite a bit different than the approach of overcoming objections, closing and the art of swimming with sharks. What a welcomed relief!

Rather than learning the tricks of manipulation, the business leaders of the new millennium will lead by inspiring authenticity, helping others develop clear intention, and through calling forth the full potential of others.

This means in a more practical way they will be bringing forward spirited solutions to everyday business problems. They will most frequently do this though the following:

• inspiring commitment
• communicating with people
• managing projects
• creating wealth

The Seven Radical Rules for Business Success

There are believed to be seven emerging essential rules for out-of-the-box business success in the immediate future. They are radical for two reasons:

Here they are:

Especially the truth about personal facts and feelings. Make everything possible in your business an open book. Teach everyone how to read the spreadsheet, make all salaries public, never hide anything that is not absolutely required to be hidden. However, there's a catch and also an art to telling the truth.

Example: You can gain permission to tell the full truth -- only when you are able to do so 100% constructively. This means you do so by taking responsibility for languaging the truth so you do

not make others 'wrong' in the process.

If you are in a leadership position, take 100%, not 200% for all activities. Require that each participant take 100%. Equality is possible only through meeting at the 100% level.

Example: By requiring everyone be a player vs having one person overperform and everyone else follow along, there is no chance for everyone to be playing as 'full-out' as their capability probably permits.

Do everything you say you are going to do, and don't do anything you've said you wouldn't do. Demand impeccability of others -- but in such a way you give them a comfortable way to provide this. If you catch yourself or others in a broken agreement, cop to it immediately and fix it.

Another approach to this may be underpromise and overdeliver.

Make your no-gossip commitment public, and state your intention to stay out of the middle of conflicts and communication glitches. A good approach is to request people speak in "I" statements and only tell their part vs in 'he' or 'you' language which is more about their assumption vs what may be true for those others.

Gossip is an interesting word. In it's truest sense this means not putting your own spin or slant on anything said about anyone who is not present -- either positively or negatively. This means

leaving others free to form their own opinion by stating facts vs your perception of the facts.

Example: If I make a referral to you with elaborate praise attached and my friend meets you and is impressed but not THAT impressed, I've set you up to be 'less than' in his eyes without giving you a fair chance to represent yourself. Most people don't think of positive commentary as gossip -- but if

it's delivered with an intent to influence opinion, it can be experienced as manipulative.

It doesn't matter if it's five minutes or an hour. What matters is that your intention is to renew your connection with your inner spirit and open to your full creativity. Find your own preferred

method: Meditate, deep breathe, sit quietly, doodle. If you miss a day, do twice as much the next day.

I'm going to put a little Lowry-spin on this one. The traditional time management guru's most often say: put your most demanding activities first and do them first thing. This works for some....but for others delegation of all of these things works best of all. This means first you have to be willing to identify, then

maximize use of your special gifts, skills and talents in order to leverage them enough to delegate your 'weaknesses' or less favored tasks. This sets you free then to work more from a "GET-TO-DO' List" versus a "TO-DO" one.

Whenever you hear of something that makes you feel uncomfortable, talk to all parties concerned and listen carefully to them. Let people have the ten minutes of clear communication that solves most problems. Listen with as little agenda as you can manage. Then get all the various opinions back on the table and collect consensus about the most useful conclusions to draw which all can agree to. People mostly want to have a say more than they want all of their own way. Give them this chance and

there will be much less confusion and conflict.

Select one of the above and put it into full practice every chance you get this next week. If you like the results, select another for the following week. Try them ALL on, a week at a time, then check back and see if you see the beginning of a radical improvement in your business success and satisfaction.

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