You Can’t Lead a Dead Organization

Great leaders have their thumb on the pulse of the organization.

Because without a pulse, the organization dies.

If you want to improve your leadership, you must know the pulse of your business — the people, the problems, the energy, the attitude, the momentum. You don’t learn that sitting in your office. You learn that by being in the middle of the action.

You have to see it.

You have to hear it.

You have to feel it.

To feel the pulse, you have to feel the passion.

And if you’re not feeling the passion, your pulse might be dead.

And if your pulse is dead, you can’t expect the organization to be alive.

Maybe you’re burned out.

But let me ask you a question…

How can you be burned out if you were never on fire to begin with?

You are responsible for your own fire.

Nobody else.

You don’t wait for motivation.

You don’t wait for the market.

You don’t wait for your team.

You light your own match.

And when the leader catches fire, the organization warms up pretty fast.

Real leaders have a pulse.

Real leaders feel the pulse.

Real leaders create the pulse.

Hope you’re on fire.

That’s all I’m gonna say— Tommy Gibbs