The Mindset of a Gear 5 Leader

How do we cultivate and sustain the mindset of a Gear 5 leader in everyday operational decisions, particularly when facing urgent short-term challenges that seem at odds with long-term transformative goals?

Sankar, This is a great question 💜
 
A Gear 5 Leader not only has a very different Mindset, but also a very different Healthset, Energyset, Heartset and Soulset. Our work as a Peaceful Warrior from Gear 0 to Gear 5 is to cultivate and sustain all the five sets to lead ourselves and our business from good to great, realize our dreams and have it all; experiencing beauty, balance and harmony within and all around; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way.
 
If you reflect deeply, you will realize that urgent short-term challenges are actually stepping stones for achieving long-term transformative goals. They are not at odds with each other.
 
Business is a spiritual playground for us to grow our consciousness to become Gear 5 Leaders who make a massive positive impact and have it all. Short-term challenges are our training ground to practise growing ourselves to be Gear 5 leaders. We can either regress to Gear 0 Survival or Scarcity or Fear Consciousness to try and solve an urgent short-term problem; or raise our consciousness in the face of breakdowns to grow to Gear 5 Thrival or Abundance or Love Consciousness.
 
The way to grow to be a Gear 5 Leader is to carve out time daily in our schedule for Leadership Depth Growth Habits; along-side growing in Craft Mastery through Craft Mastery Growth Habits and practising Business Excellence Growth Habits to amplify positive impact. The Good to Great journey is possible and sustainable only with using the 3 Growth Levers – Leadership Depth, Craft Mastery and Business Excellence – together, integrated with each other.
 
Let’s take an example:
 
Short-term challenge could be that we are not profitable and long-term transformative goal is to fulfil on our Purpose of contributing to the world through our business.
 
If we are not profitable, that means we are not contributing to the world. A customer invests in our products and services only if our products and services contributes to their lives. In this case, strengthen yourself in Gear 2 consciousness of Being of Service, learn all you can about your domain through Craft Mastery and use the Business Excellence framework to discover what would most make a difference to the customers which will create a pathway for you to discover a Blue Ocean –
i. a need not fulfilled by the industry as yet
and
ii. is profitable to fulfil because we have discovered what part of the problem the customer is willing to pay us for solving and solution of which part of the problem the customer is not willing to pay for as it does not contribute to them.
 
If we are not Gear 2 Leaders, we would care more about making money than about the customer’s needs and the challenges that they are facing. When we care more about making money than about the customer, that is the fastest way to kill a business.
 
Gear 2 Consciousness will also inspire us to learn all we can about the domain to solve our customer’s problems more effectively through Stage 2 of Craft Mastery. Business Excellence on Mountain 2 would support us to build and deliver the product to the customer to create a positive impact in the life of the customer.
 
As we progress on the Business Excellence journey, short term problems will keep popping up like pop-corn because that is the design of the Good to Great journey. Will we use them to grow our consciousness to move forward to lead ourselves and our business from good to great with ease and grace or struggle like Fighters to build a mediocre business is always a choice available to each one of us.

Keep asking questions with wondrous curiosity to joyously lead yourself and your business from good to great, realize your dreams and have it all with ease and grace; while having lots of fun and adventure along the way.

Loving you,
j.
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