{"id":111,"date":"2010-03-02T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2010-03-02T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T19:52:00","slug":"punish-inaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/punish-inaction\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Punish Inaction&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"WIDTH: 120px; HEIGHT: 240px\" vspace=\"4\" marginheight=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&amp;bc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;fc1=000000&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;t=instituteforl-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;m=amazon&amp;f=ifr&amp;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&amp;asins=013714234X\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\"><\/iframe><strong>I&#8217;ve become a major fan of Dev Patnaik&#8217;s book<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/WiredToCare\" target=\"_blank\">Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy<\/a> I&#8217;m looking forward to interviewing Dev tomorrow for an upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-leadonline.com\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\">People and Projects Podcast<\/a> episode.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t wait for the interview<\/strong>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/WiredToCare\" target=\"_blank\">get the book now<\/a> and start reading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While prepping for the interview I came across what I expect to be my favorite quote for this entire month<\/strong>, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/innovate\/content\/feb2010\/id2010028_823268.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a recent article Dev wrote for BusinessWeek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The quote is credited to Stanford University engineering professor Jim Adams who said, <i><strong>&#8220;Good companies reward success, punish failure, and ignore inaction. Great companies reward success and failure and punish inaction.&#8221;<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p>This hits on a common theme in both my <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/WhatYouDontKnow\" target=\"_blank\">interview with Michael Roberto<\/a> about his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0131568159?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=instituteforl-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0131568159\">Know What You Don&#8217;t Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems Before They Happen<\/a> and in <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/FailureOption\" target=\"_blank\">my discussion with Ralph Heath<\/a>, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/CelebratingFailure\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrating Failure: The Power of Taking Risks, Making Mistakes and Thinking Big<\/a>: <strong>we too often seek first to punish failure instead of learn from it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yet the even greater wisdom of the quote has to do with how we deal with inaction<\/strong>. You be the judge. How have you seen inaction most often handled?<\/p>\n<p><em>Tolerated? Expected? Ignored?<\/em> Seriously. How many times have you said, &#8220;I thought of that years ago!&#8221; as someone makes money off an idea you had in the shower but went down the drain because you didn&#8217;t take action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Punish inaction.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you want to excel at delivering projects and leading teams?<\/strong> Take those strong words to heart today. And don&#8217;t just consider the inaction of those on your teams and the stakeholders you work with.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You and I both need to look in the mirror to consider the inaction that has been holding us back.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you want to make big things happen this year?<\/strong> Reward success. Enthusiastically learn from mistakes. And develop a disdain for inaction.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Have you still not taken action on <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/WiredToCare\" target=\"_blank\">getting a copy of Dev&#8217;s book<\/a>? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve become a major fan of Dev Patnaik&#8217;s book Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy I&#8217;m looking forward to interviewing Dev tomorrow for an upcoming People and Projects Podcast episode. Don&#8217;t wait for the interview&#8212;get the book now and start reading. While prepping for the interview I came across what&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/punish-inaction\/#more-111\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,48,36,62,40,24,39,60,23,5,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p488Wj-1N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}