Radical Success!

Most successful businesses began with someone's passionate mission: to share new information, produce a better product, provide a new understanding, and contribute to culture. A successful business remains successful because it stays true to its mission. How does a business stay true to its mission? •By becoming clear about whom it is meant to serve •By hiring only people who are truly aligned with mission •By ensuring its products, its management practices and its organizational structures are all in alignment with mission •By measuring how well organization has achieved its mission each and every day •By trusting that money is a natural by-product of staying true to mission. A business that stays true to its mission develops “Presence”, has an inner pulse. A business with “Presence” is one that is standing still and solid, emanating light of its mission, so that its most perfect customers can easily find their way to company.

Is it Perfunctory of Desultory? It Pays to Know the Difference.

Part of Emotional Intelligence is being able to label emotions and therefore attitudes, and in workplace, these lead to motivation and performance. It’s important to understand distinction between desultory, and perfunctory when dealing with an employee or colleague. Desultory is far more pervasive and permanent and probably has to do with general atmosphere of office, while anyone can do a single task in a perfunctory manner, if they dislike it, or are having an off day, or don’t feel good.

If you have a desultory work environment, you’re going to need to work on culture and general atmosphere. If you have an employee doing a perfunctory job at a certain task, you need to correct for that situation only.

In essence, any person can lack motivation for a certain task, but when attitude is desultory, no one is motivated.

Definitions

Desultory - Desultory comes from Latin desultorius which literally means a circus rider who leaps from horse to horse. Desultory means (1) marked by lack of definite plan, regularity, or purpose; (2) not connected with main subject, and (3) disappointing in progress or performance (sluggish). Perfunctory - Perfunctory is from Latin perfunctorius meaning to accomplish or get through with. However in modern connotations, it has come to mean (1) characterized by routine or superficiality (mechanical); or (2) lacking in interest or enthusiasm.