The Five Clean Up Methods

Clean up the Seven Deadly Toxins with these sure-fire methods.

Clean Up 1: Commit to the Process

Cleans up Toxin 1: Stifling Talent

This clean up involves understanding what it means to manage people, to grasp the core of being human. Employees are individual bundles of energy, motivation, compassion, and desire for achievement. This uncontrived mix is the bonus that can produce amazing results for the leader who who has learned to commit to the process.

Clean Up 2: Celebrate and Give Credit

Cleans up Toxin 2: The Blame Game, and Toxin 3: Ignoring Burn Out

This clean up involves understanding the two basic needs of all humanity and how to meet them in the workplace. People need to feel valued, and they need to contribute to something meaningful. Talented employees often feel these two basic needs even more strongly than the rest. Even a large paycheck cannot guarantee you a talented workforce, because hiring talent and retaining talent are two completely different things.

Clean Up 3: Build Community

Cleans up Toxin 4: Measuring by Method

Building Community starts with a culture of Celebrating and Giving Credit (Clean Up Method 2). As the two basic needs of humanity are met with celebration and credit, building community takes these principles to a deeper level. Connecting emotionally with the people who drive the business forward and empowering them to do their job well is at the heart of Building Community.

Clean Up 4: Exercise Creative Discipline

Cleans up Toxin 5: Constant Fast, and Toxin 6: Revisiting Decisions.

How does anyone say "no" to a beautiful, inspired, great idea? When a creative individual is running a company or a department and possesses a seemingly inexhaustible supply of ideas, the risk comes not in having the well run dry, but in drowning everyone in the ensuing flood. Creative Disciplne eliminates the Toxins of Constant Fast and Revisiting Decisions by using time as a resource: time to think, time to perform, time to review. It means drawing a "stop line" in the sand, and managing the process of good ideas.

Clean Up 5: Gain Humility

Cleans up Toxin 7: Living the Lie

The duty to manage and govern responsibly is very real and very big. The Clean Up Method of Gain Humility is the only way to combat the Toxin of Living the lie and its disastrous fallout. Unfortunately, this clean up is hard to come by because it is dependent upon the leader's character, and it only effective if it is authentic. Humility in the worplace matters because people matter. Ego doesn't risk but humility does, and greater answers are found with humble curiousity.

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