Managing Director, RocheMartin
After you’ve told your children that you love them and they must
never doubt the value of their lives, what’s the number one skill they
need to succeed? Resilience. The ability to bounce back from setback,
heartbreak, injustice, and rise to life’s opportunities is quite simply
the one skill that every parent should teach their children.
I’ve just finished watching my 25 years old son, Dylan win his first
professional kick-boxing fight. Despite the win, let me tell you
watching someone you love go three rounds in the school of hard knocks
is never easy. By nature Dylan is a gentle soul, but also a highly
trained and skillful athlete. But in the world of martial arts it takes
more than skill to succeed, it takes mental toughness to shake off the
painful blows and knock downs to bounce back time and time again to stay
in the game and succeed.
Dylan has been through some pretty rough periods in his life and he
certainly didn’t get the genes for getting up off the canvas from his
old man. So, if you think your kids may have been slightly short changed
by inheriting your DNA, don’t worry, genes are not destiny.
If you follow a few simple rules for creating the right cultural
conditions that celebrates resilience, you can tip the scales in the
right direction even if you’re not exactly Mohamed Ali. And, of course,
the same rules also work for building cultures of resilient people in
your business. As the philosopher, Robert Fulghum said, ‘all I really
need to know, I learned in Kindergarten.’ Most of what we need to know
about how to live and what to do we learn early; this is especially true
of leadership skills.
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