11/02/2021
If you want to be a high performer today you need to fearlessly, courageously and pro-actively embrace exponential growth. This is growth that just keeps on coming. It never stops to give you breathing space. It can overwhelm if you don’t know how to move with it. It is, however, the kind of growth that enhances your ability to manage the uncertainty, unpredictability and complexity of today’s world.
To embrace its empowering excitement and ride its challenging relentlessness, you need to move out of your comfort zone and stretch yourself where you will discover potential you never knew you had. More significantly, on the way, you will gain insights into the intrigues of how this new economy operates. This empowers you to work more effectively within it, provoking even further growth and ultimate success.
Incremental growth, on the other hand, is a long road today. You decide to make a change and you work on it until you’ve made it. When that change is achieved you make another building on the first. It may take months or years but all the time you remain in control of the process. That’s important to you because the stress of not being in control of the change threatens you too much. You still believe that slow and steady will get you there. While you are growing incrementally, however, you see colleagues bypassing you, seizing opportunities and promotions you believe you deserve. You don’t understand that while you are technically more qualified, you do not display the non-technical soft skills that will equip you to become a high performer in this volatile, uncertain and changing workplace.
While those of you who embrace exponential growth and change work with 1, 3 and 5 year plans that are flexible and very agile, those committed to incremental growth and change are following 3, 5 and 10 year plans that you are adhering to very closely.
Everyone has a comfort zone, but it is the seat of mediocrity. You will not become the best version of yourself by stayi