Business leaders need to learn these qualities from a master gardener

With a Gardner, a business leader needs to learn four skills that will help them in establishing themselves as strong business leaders. These skills are research, replicate, re-work and re-imagine.

As a true gardener keep their research on different plants, flowers and vegetables and how much water, sun and space-specific kinds of vegetables need if they are going to thrive and the key to increasing the variety and biodiversity of the soil for optimal growth. They try to master in their field.

Similarly, business leaders are trying to create a healthy culture within an organization. The research will help leaders to better understand the ecosystem they are working in, including what their customers, employees and shareholders need. They need to know what unique advantage is in meeting their needs.

To a gardener, the garden is like their lab, where they put their knowledge into action. This has been both an incredible continuation of learning and a way to speed up the time in putting an ideal solution in place instead of having to create it from scratch.

Business leaders also need to understand that their company is like their lab, where leaders put all the knowledge, they learned into practice to establish a thriving and healthy culture. This application has both short and long-term benefits and can pay huge dividends.

The job of replicating masterful actions within a garden is dirty work. To do the work, you need to roll up your sleeves and get up to your elbows in the dirt. In the pursuit of establishing solid practices that enrich the culture and increase the productivity of the team in the business, leaders will inevitably run into roadblocks and experience outcomes that underperform against their expectations. But there is also no need to fret in these situations. The work of tweaking, iterating and re-working those things which leaders put into practice will aid in the learnings and optimization of the practices that will help the company thrive and produce healthy harvests.