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The distance between correct and right is BIG.
You have procedures and policies in place, heck you probably have a policy for everything right? And then there is the human element, no policy will help there and there’s a liminal space that is infinitesimally small yet holds within in the destructive power of a thousand suns.
Hyperbole, surely? Ya think?
My boss at Games Workshop was a legend. Steve Powroznyk was an unashamed nerd, a geek of the highest order, a UNIX aficionado, someone who knew Informix inside out, who could shell-script the crap out of any issue, someone who never tired of sharing his knowledge — I could go on but, you know what made him such a good boss? He knew the difference between CORRECT and RIGHT.
Leaders… doing the CORRECT thing and doing the RIGHT thing can sometimes seem like the same thing but when it comes to creating your organisational culture, the space between the two is the distance between the culture you want and the culture you get.
Now it seems to me, as someone who leads a multi-disciplinary team, that one of the most important factors when leading people is UNDERSTANDING their motivators, what is it that drives them. Why do they get up in the morning? Why do they KEEP coming to work for you? Picture this, if they had all the money they needed, would they still come to work for and with you…
