Principles, Practices, & Beliefs that Keep Us on Course

by Dave Kahle

Navigating your way through complexity in a rapidly changing, information-saturated world

We all know that we find ourselves in an incredibly turbulent, complex, rapidly changing, and information-saturated world. Intuitively, we understand that our ability to navigate these turbulent waters is the single biggest challenge we will face for the balance of our careers.

     Because these times are unprecedented, we need to intentionally create some mechanisms to help us.  If we’re smart and intentional, we can build some routines, attitudes, and competencies into our personal lives and into our business culture that will help us to survive and thrive, even in these unprecedented times.

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In earlier articles in this series, I proposed we intentionally build ‘sails’ into our routines – those habits, attitudes, and processes that power us forward. At the same time, we focus on energy and forward movement, we need to intentionally build ‘keels’ into our lives and corporate cultures.  Keels are those principles, practices, and beliefs that hold us down and keep us on course. Like the sails and keel on a sailboat, the dynamic tension between these two opposing forces empowers us to act at our optimum.

So far, we have examined these sails:

• An acceptance of personal responsibility.
• An attitude of openness
• A propensity to take risks.

We’ve also looked at these keels:

• An articulated vision or purpose
• The discipline of regular reflecting and planning.
• The discipline of rational thinking.

In this article, we’ll look at the next sail:  A focus on strengths.

It is easiest to understand this idea by thinking in terms of strengths and weaknesses.  In much of our lives, we’ve been in situations ... CLICK HERE TO READ FULL ARTICLE