7 days 7 hours or 7 minutes

How do you adapt to change?
I mean like we were going west and now it’s east change.

I was having a conversation recently with a friend who is really growing in this area. There was a time when they took 7 weeks to adjust to change and as we were talking we realized that they had really done a great job in 7 days. Then I had a thought, “Am I am 7 day, 7 hour or 7 minute leader?”

If it takes you 7 days to adapt to major change you are a great employee. You take some time, but you come along. You will be an awesome addition to anyone’s team, but to lead that is probably too long.

If it takes you 7 hours to adapt to major change you are a leader. You can bring people with you and you can model loyalty to and communicate the vision in a way that only a leader can.

If you can take a breath, gather your thoughts and adjust to a major change in 7 minutes you are a leader of leaders and can be counted on to lead large parts of an organization.

So where are you?

By the way if it takes you 7 weeks, you will struggle in life. Not just at work, but everywhere as life just moves faster than you do.