Last weekend one of my Vistage colleagues laughingly observed that it’s clear that the President and Congress’s leadership are not Vistage members.
Why? Because Vistage members focus on building effective long-term strategies that focus on producing long-term results. They know that if they let problems fester and become short-term roadblocks to the larger roads to growth, their companies will fail.
They also know that if a problem appears on the horizon which would sidetrack them from focusing on the long-term issues, they bring it to their Peer Advisory Group – people with uniquely different experiences to offer new ideas which can be used to resolve the challenge through creativity and negotiation. Our leaders aren’t even talking to each other! Mostly they are talking past each other.
Maybe it’s time that Vistage members and chairs lend them a hand before the crisis deepens!