Anyone in a successful organization will tell you of the importance of taking time to celebrate the accomplishments of individuals, a team, and/or the entire organization. If you think about it, we ENJOY celebrating. Can you imagine a quiet home stadium after the winning shot in the final seconds of a critical basketball game? Of course not! The stadium would erupt…high fives would be shared with complete strangers with nothing more in common than the joy of an accomplishment. The question that keeps taunting me is, “How long do we celebrate?”
As a life-long fan of the Chicago Bears, this question continues to amuse me as the ’85 Championship Bears are revisited year after year after year along with their dominating season. I’m guessing this is not an unfamiliar tradition where we celebrate the past and what we recall as the greatest season ever…what haunts me is the why…
I fear, at times, we enjoy recalling “the good ol’ days” as looking into the future gives little sense of hope for being any better and recalling the past is more of a celebration than looking to what the future has in store.
If your organization continues to celebrate what once was…you really need to consider the why… getting your team excited to what is yet to come should be your focus…if not, you’re doomed to live in the past…
Be good to yourself…
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