Momentum is a wonderful force if you are on the right side and riding it to achievement.\u00a0 One key in keeping momentum is to avoid hubris.\u00a0 Pride comes before destruction.\u00a0 When people become complacent with their success and see success as an entitlement.\u00a0 They fail to remember what made the great and take it for granted that what has worked before could work again.\u00a0 They make statements like, \u201cWe\u2019re successful because we do these specific things.\u201d\u00a0 Instead they should be focusing on \u201cWe are successful because we understand why we do these specific things and under what conditions they would no longer work.\u201d
\nJim Collins calls this Stage 1 in his book \u201cHow the Mighty Fall\u201d and list four items that cause hubris to creep into people and organizations.<\/p>\n
One place where these items stand out to me is not that they moved away from the primary business or stayed true to the primary business to long.\u00a0 It is why they changed or stood firm that caused the delay.\u00a0 Humility is very important to momentum because you have to know when to change and why you are changing.\u00a0 When you become prideful and entitled you lose the ability to make these changes because you feel the world will bend to your will.\u00a0 The minute you feel in control is the first sign of hubris creeping into your organization. Momentum is a wonderful force if you are on the right side and riding it to achievement.\u00a0 One key in keeping momentum is to avoid hubris.\u00a0 Pride comes before destruction.\u00a0 When people become complacent with their success and see success as an entitlement.\u00a0 They fail to remember what made the great and take it for …<\/p>\n
\nThankfully this is only stage one and very correctable if found early.\u00a0 When you ignore the subtle signs of hubris creep then you will find it harder to correct.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve come to see institutional decline like a staged disease: harder to detect but easier to cure in the early stages, easier to detect but harder to cure in the later stages. An institution can look strong on the outside but already be sick on the inside,\u201d\u00a0\u2015\u00a0James C. Collins,\u00a0How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"