We are all creatures of habit. 

Watch anyone as they enter Starbucks for their morning coffee, enter a conference room and watch where they sit, or where they park in the parking lot. 

Have you lately looked at your habits and determined which you want to keep and which you are ready to change?  

I’m working with one executive who has recently taken over his bosses job and now works directly for the CEO. He is breaking not just his own habits but company habits that his predecessor built.

* The way strategic choices are made and executed. 

* The way acquisitions are evaluated and decided. 

* The way his division is energized and inspired by how he interacts with all 3,000 employees. 

To break these company habits, he has to change his own habits of how he influences, manages his time, and leads his organization. He is completing a reboot of how he works and the altitude he works at. 

To successfully adopt new habits you need visual triggers and accountability. 

I’ve recently adopted a new habit of cycling two of my girls to school each morning then cycling on to CrossFit. My cycle helmet is my morning visual trigger and my two eight year olds are my energetic reminders who hold me accountable when I’m tempted to sleep in for an extra 15 minutes and then take the car!

What habits are you ready to let go of and take on?

Where is Val?

Over the next few months I’ll be speaking at a number of events in Boston, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. I love introductions, let me know if there is an executive you know in those cities that it would be good for me to meet. 

Dedicated to growing your business,

Val

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