The quality of what you put on top determines the quality of what comes below it.
And you – the CEO – determine most of the Upstream components of a business. In ways you probably don’t realise, and in quantums that you probably underestimate.
Here’s why: your Upstream influences are largely unseeable (i.e. they can’t be put in a physical, touchable form), yet they lead to profound impacts in your business.
- Your ‘energy’ (the ethereal kind: your ‘vibe’)
- Your energy levels (your base vitality)
- Your thinking
- Your ethics
- Your beliefs
- Your hope
- Your worldview
- Your fears
The real-life implications of these are profound because these are the determinants of your ‘trickle’: starting at the Upstream level, flowing through the Midstream, and finally hitting your Downstream in terms of your business performance and results.
Most of what determines your business’s success is invisible to you and to the people around you.