PPSA Keynote McCormick (CONT’D FROM PAGE 26)
your eyes off your goals, your business is out of control. There is no autopilot. You can crash.” Ultimately, it all comes down to leadership. McCormick suggests that successful leaders employ her SOAR pro- cess: First, make your experience Superior. Oversize it. Accelerate it. And make it Rare, thus ensuring that your brand, product or experience stands out in a different way.
“I look at failure as an opportunity to learn,” McCormick said. “It’s an opportunity to get better. It’s an opportunity to improve. It’s an opportunity to try something different. To me, failure is when you do the same thing over and over again and don’t learn anything. Like Einstein said, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different re- sults is the meaning of insanity!” Maintain Control And FLY McCormick shared another experience in which main- taining control was critical to her mission: She was flying her Black Hawk on a rescue mission though a major ice storm that crippled upstate New York. She had her crew and an officer on board. Visibility reduced to zero when she lifted the copter into a cloud, the windshield froze over and an alert sounded: the dashboard indicator flashed that one of the helicopter’s two engines was failing. Not good. McCormick co-pilot panicked and froze while she re- mained in control. The mission then shifted to landing the helicopter safely and saving the lives of all aboard. After going through emergency protocols, she determined that the engine wasn’t failing, but an emergency alert sensor was. She landed the craft and crew safely. “In this case, we didn’t have an autopilot. I couldn’t take my hands off the controls or my eyes off the instrument panel,” McCormick said. “The same thing applies to busi- ness. If you relax and take your hands off the wheel and
Finally, leaders who are in control can FLY, an acronym for First Lead Yourself, a topic that McCormick tackles in her presentations and multiple books. “Leading yourself is hard and leading other people is hard,” she said. “If you don’t lead well, people won’t follow. And they may not fol- low what you say but they’ll certainly follow what you do.”
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