My current read is "You, The Warrior Leader" by Bobby Welch
(http://www.amazon.com/You-Warrior-Leader-Applying-Victorious/dp/0805431365)
. The first chapter is called 'Fix Bayonets'. Putting all the glory of
Hollywood's image of war aside, the order to Fix Bayonets is a very
frightening order and when I think about it, gives me shivers.
The order is given when all other avenues of action, all other tools are no
longer usable or available. It is an order given prior to going into
hand-to-hand combat, usually when someone is not going to be coming home.
In our lives, we run into times where we run into a Do-or-Die situation and
have to give ourselves or our teams the order 'Fix Bayonets'. Some people
call it a 'Last Ditch Effort' but in reality it is more pressing than
that. Failure means loss of a job, loss of business, loss of a contract,
etc.
When we face those situations where we have to 'Fix Bayonets' we need to
prepare ourselves both mentally and physically to do everything that we can
possibly do to get the job done, or else (when the or else is clearly
visible and known).
That mental state of preparedness, when we know the comfortable and routine
tactics and processes of daily operations are no longer going to 'cut it'
fully consumes us. We need to think fast, and be precise in every action we
take, and every decision we make.
We generally do better in these situations when we have practiced and honed
our skills in thinking and acting fast without error. Sadly, though, very
few of us actually do any sort of practice or training for these situations.
We simply get our 'trial-by-fire' and use what we learn as our experience
to face the next crisis.
Maybe we can learn from this challenge to practice working in tighter
constraints than normal. Maybe challenge ourselves to do a task which
normally takes one hour and do it in 10 minutes. Give ourselves some
practice of fixing bayonets so that when crunch time happens, we have
drilled it and can do our best.
Enjoy!
Sanford Berenberg
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