By happenstance, today is Election Day in the United States. Rather than write my usual 400 or 500 words I decided to keep this short…to ensure you have time to get out and vote.

One of the responsibilities of leadership is displaying the behavior of a leader. Displaying behavior that leads to involved, engaged people.

And ensuring that everyone gets the message. believes it, and participates.

It never ceases to irriate many of us how many decline to participate in the political process. They don’t vote. And yet, they are quite comfortable complaining about the result of elections, complaining about those who are elected, complaining about what elected politicians do.

If you don’t participate…you don’t get to complain. You are a big part of the problem.

It’s exactly like your company. If you do things that cause your people to drop out, to become disengaged, to decide they might as well keep their ideas to themselves…things don’t work as well as they could. Even worse, it leads to lots of complaining or even worse, active obstructionism. After all, what is “passive aggressive” but “active obstruction”?

Be fully engaged. Vote. Make sure each and every one of your people is fully engaged. Encourage them to vote. And even more importantly for your business, encourage them to be engaged each and every day in helping build the best possible company. An inclusive company where every employee, customer, supplier feels they are heard…and their ideas have value.

When all are totally engaged and participating, anything can be accomplished.

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