It Really is as Simple as Weighing-up Will My Decision/ Action “Enable” or “Disable”

As I’ve illustrated to a range of different leaders over the course of time, if we want New Zealand to pick-up its game and really thrive, then those people who are responsible for leading our country and those who are responsible for leading organisations/ other people should be basing all of their decisions/ actions on the following very simple yet very practical “sensibility filter”…

Is the decision/ action that I’m about to make/ take going to “enable” or “disable” the people whose interests I am charged with the responsibility of representing and developing ?

And if the answer that enters your mind is that the contemplated action/ decision is likely to disable your primary stakeholders, then don’t proceed any further to do what you had felt was a good idea. 

In my view, governance and operational level decision-makers should be doing everything in their power to make decisions/ perform actions that enable the stakeholders who they represent – to help set people up to have the best chance of being the best that they can be. Without this orientation/ mind-set, New Zealand won’t achieve the prosperity it deserves.