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What you should do with people in the wrong roles depends.

If they don’t have the motivation, fit or strengths required for your organization, move them out.

If they do, move them over or up as appropriate.

Recall The Only Six Viable Approaches To Talent Management:

Invest, Support, Cherish, Move Up, Over Or Out.

What To Do With People In The Wrong Roles Move them over, up or out as appropriate.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: Show me a good loser – and I’ll show you a loser.

As Tom Brady said after the Patriots dismantled the Chargers and before beating the Chiefs in overtime to get to their third Super Bowl in a row, “I just like winning.”

Who doesn’t?

Still, there is an art to losing well.

It’s all about accepting defeat, living your principles, and finding new ways to win the next time.

The Art of Losing Well So You Can Win Later Lose well now. Win the next time around.

One of my early articles for this publication was about AMN’s CEO Susan Salka and Three Priorities in Ensuring a Smooth Merger or Acquisition.

Those priorities were:

1) early conversations with all

2) a well-resourced integration management office

3) staying close to the process.

Relooking At Three Priorities In Ensuring A Smooth Merger Or Acquisition Those priorities were 1) early conversations with all, 2) a well-resourced integration management office and 3) staying close to the process.

If mastery is your end point, when you get there, you are done.

You are at the top, the pinnacle, the peak.

However, as Darwin told us, survival of the fittest is about survival of those best able to adapt, and adapting is a continual process.

That's why achieving mastery is so dangerous.

The only way to go from the peak is down.

The moment you think you have arrived; you begin to atrophy and decline.

As others adapt and move past you, your chances of survival diminish.

Thus, the pursuit of mastery is a never-ending quest.

Relooking At Beyond 10,000 Hours: The Constant Pursuit Of Mastery The main point was about embracing your own unique talent, developing it into a strength, and devoting yourself to a cause.

Relooking At The 5 Most Important Questions For BRAVE Leaders

https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2022/12/27/relooking-at-the-five-most-important-questions-for-brave-leaders/?sh=7956eb10fbcb

Relooking At The 5 Most Important Questions For BRAVE Leaders Where to play? What matters and why? How to win? How to connect? What impact?

Wouldn’t it be nice if management theory actually worked in practice?

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could follow the tenets of The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan to get your strategic, operating, and organizational processes in place and let them run without interruption?

Wouldn’t it be nice if your boss had perfect leadership skills and gave you clear direction and then never changed their mind?

Welcome to the real world.

The real world is messy. Things change.

And we all must adapt to those changes on an ongoing basis.

Relooking At The 5 Keys To Managing An Unpredictable Boss They're the same as the five keys to managing any boss and culture: Behaviors, Relationships, Attitudes, Values, Environment.