You are the CEO.
Imagine you are at work at your plant.
Imagine your plant’s alarm sirens scream and a larger-than-life voice blares through your loudspeaker:
"STOP THE PRESSES!"
Imagine you look up at your large clock, the white one with the black hands, high up on the wall of your production area. The clock ever so slowly ticks one more second then it stops.
All your machines groan and screech as they halt their work…the whole place is silent.
As in one of those sci-fi movies we see advertised on TV, all your people stand frozen in time.
That is, every person but you.
You are unscathed.
You are able to walk about…in the calm, still, and eerie silence.
Once the surprise wears off your next reaction, of course, is...
“Finally…some time to rest and relax!”
You do that.
You rest. You relax.
After some time, you are refreshed and invigorated: so, the joy of all that rest and relaxation wears off.
You get really bored and you begin to think.
You wonder..."How can I get things back on track?"
“How can I re-start this business of mine?"
And, recognizing you are under absolutely no pressure from anyone or anything, your mind takes it one step farther.
You don’t just ask yourself "How can I get things back on track?"
You ask yourself:
"How should I get things back on track?"
"How should I re-start the people and re-start the presses?"
“What are the right things to do?”
As you focus your thoughts and envision the future, ideas start to come to you…
To be continued…