The Creative Innovation Blog
Shared Struggles of Entrepreneurs and Parents in Motivation
Parenthood and entrepreneurship are two seemingly distinct aspects of life, but they share surprising similarities when it comes to risk, motivation, and responsibility. Both roles involve taking on significant challenges, making sacrifices, and striving for long-term rewards. Let’s explore how being a business founder or executive compares to being a parent, focusing on the risk-reward dynamic and how it impacts motivation and commitment in the longer term. Then, a small thought experiment on how employees or children perceive these.
Quiet Hiring Leads To Quiet Quitting
While the intention behind quiet hiring may be to reduce distractions and maintain confidentiality, it can have negative consequences that undermine team dynamics and organizational culture because it leads to resentment and distrust. Those lower creativity, innovation, and, ultimately, morale. We will explore how this can lead to quiet quitting (where individuals are unwilling to put in any extra effort and save their energy for those they see as willing to invest in them).
Change shouldn’t be by chance
Hopefully, you notice these gradually build and move you from your comfort zone to an area of discomfort. That is how you change. It is the only way we #change.
Rethinking Getting What You Pay For (AKA Quiet Quitting)
Plenty of companies and individuals fail to see these Quiet Quitters as a way to gain an advantage in the marketplace. They are the same companies that take too long to adapt and battle a market full of competitors on price over commodities. The inability to value people first often translates into a failure to directly appreciate customers in a meaningful way to bring true innovation.
Why I Coach with a Little 'C' Mindset
Coaching with a little 'c' is a mindset. It is something that I learned in my 22 plus years of studying taekwondo, among other things. We practice having an empty bowl, always striving to learn more. I take that same mindset on to the pitch or even the basketball court. It means that even as an authority, I can still learn too. In that openness to learning, which is two-way communication, I can lead.