Here is the one Attitude that I believe is necessary in any top-performing senior team: assuming that everything within the organization is broken. Nothing within any organization should be "hands-off." No aspect of any organization should be taboo. If one thing is untouchable, then everything is untouchable.
No senior management position can be untouchable. No mid-level management position can be untouchable. No entry level position can be untouchable. Every aspect, every employee, every process, every interaction and every idea must be allowed to face the chopping block. If you don't run your business in this way, you are not maximizing your organization's power.
Attitude Adjustment: Everything is broken. And if some things are not broken, they should be allowed to be broken. The more senior executives approach the board room table with the belief that every aspect of the business can be improved, only then will true creative discussion occur.
Every aspect of the business needs to be up for discussion, and that includes the senior executives who run the place.
As Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert cartoon once said, "A brilliant idea and a dumb idea sound exactly the same to a mediocre mind." Anyone attempting to maintain the status-quo within an organization will find that their senior team is no longer top-performing, but instead, simply mediocre.
Now, how many things at work are you prepared to break today?
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