Most often, humans and organizations die from within. As individual humans and as organizations, lack of attention to our "health" accelerates the trajectory toward death. Some argue quite convincingly that healthspan is really more important than lifespan.
Some things we can focus on in our organizational lives that foster both healthspan and lifespan...
- Purpose - Are we living with fidelity to our "calling," the reason we exist?
- Nutrition - Are we paying close attention to the "stuff we put in" to our lives (Food? Learning? Resources?).
- Peace - Are we taking time daily to notice the good stuff and be thankful for the blessings?
- Holisticness - Are we regularly acknowledging and honoring the contributions of each of the parts and people that make up the whole?
- Accounting - Are we honestly looking in the mirror and at our work with an eye of "ownership" rather than victimhood?
- Improvement - Reflecting on all the above, are we taking small but intentional steps each day to get better?
This is what the most vibrant organizations do, day in and day out. Works as a recipe for us as individuals, too.
The death part is inevitable. The path toward it, however, is largely in our control.
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