{"id":1091,"date":"2011-06-22T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottcochrane.com\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2011-11-24T19:41:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T19:41:56","slug":"what_leaders_could_learn_from_jed_clampett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/22\/what_leaders_could_learn_from_jed_clampett\/","title":{"rendered":"What Leaders Could Learn from Jed Clampett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to be more than about 100 years old, you may remember the classic tv show <em>The Beverly Hillbillies<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What you may not recall is the timeless leadership truth contained in the show\u2019s hilarious pilot episode.<\/p>\n<p>Jed Clampett was simply out on his property one day, up in the hills of Tennessee, and as he was shootin\u2019 at some food, then up from the ground come a bubblin\u2019 crude. (\u201cOil that is\u2026black gold\u2026Texas tea\u201d\u2026If you\u2019re humming along already, you\u2019re definitely from the boomer generation.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1092\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottcochrane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/clampetts.jpg\" alt=\"Clampetts\" width=\"250\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/clampetts.jpg 250w, https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/clampetts-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Soon he found himself to be a multi-millionaire, and his \u2018kin-folk\u2019 began trying to explain that he no longer had to live the way he was used to. \u201cJust look at this place!\u201d a cousin exclaimed, while looking around his tumble-down shack. \u201cYou\u2019re 50 miles from your nearest neighbour, you\u2019re over-run with skunks and possums, you cook on a wood stove\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thoughtfully Jed replied, \u201cYep, I reckon you\u2019re right. A feller\u2019d be a darn fool to give up all this\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Poor ol\u2019 Jed just couldn\u2019t see that what he was clinging to was preventing his family from moving forward to something better.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, effective leaders I know have a knack for discerning what needs to be jettisoned, in order to move their organizations forward.<\/p>\n<p>Are you clinging too tightly to anything that could be preventing the forward movement of your organization? Here\u2019s a simple discernment exercise. Imagine someone on your team pointing out any of the following, and honestly ask yourself how you would respond.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u201cWe haven\u2019t updated our org chart in 5 years\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cWe spend very little time learning best-practices from other organizations\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cWe seem stuck in an old pattern of doing things\u2026We\u2019re not generating results like we did before\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your inner Jed Clampett is saying, \u201cYep\u2026a feller\u2019d be a darn fool to give up all this,\u201d you may be clinging too tightly \u2018the old ways\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In your leadership, how do you discern when it\u2019s time for a fresh approach?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you happen to be more than about 100 years old, you may remember the classic tv show The Beverly Hillbillies. What you may not recall is the timeless leadership truth contained in the show\u2019s hilarious pilot episode. Jed Clampett was simply out on his property one day, up in the hills of Tennessee, and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,263],"tags":[686,984,687],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership-summit","category-the-global-leadership-summit","tag-discernment","tag-leadership","tag-moving-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}