Results: The Only Fluent Language in the Boardroom [video]

This video teaches a simple but uncomfortable lesson: most times, it is execution that decides. Walk into a board meeting, and if the CEO has great numbers with revenue up, margins improving, market share expanding, you will meet an orator, as Board members are hearing what they seek. They see a CEO who speaks with confidence. He communicates fluently. His strategy sounds elegant. The vision becomes poetic. Good numbers have a way of improving diction. Before everyone is a rock star!

But you can travel to England and learn the best English in the world, but if revenue is down, profits are declining, and market share is slipping, that eloquence disappears. You begin to stammer before them, and they will interrupt you mindlessly. Because in business, the most powerful language is not grammar or storytelling. It is results. When no one sees that, confusion sets it because you are no longer communicating. They expected something based on the roadmap and you are sharing totally uncorrelated expectations.

That is what this video shows. Once the goal is on the scoreboard, everything changes. The team is winning. Number 9 has scored. Momentum shifts. Suddenly, everyone looks brilliant. Confidence rises. Energy follows outcome. Before that moment, the intensity was raw, inefficient, and unsettled. Results brought order!

Of course, we do not encourage excesses or unsporting behavior. But this reflects the age we live in, a high-octane, hyper-competitive world, where outcomes settle many debates. Execution silences noise. Results end arguments. And as a team, results can unite everyone because when a company does well, everyone working in that company becomes legendary. If you work in Nvidia, send out your resume to 10 companies; I promise you that you will get close to 9 offers! Why? Nvidia rocks and every staff therein is a star!

Everything is captured in this African wisdom: Victory has relations; vanquish is an orphan. In business, as in life, results do not just speak, they decide relationships.

This video teaches a simple but uncomfortable lesson: most times, it is execution that decides. Walk into a board meeting, and if the CEO has great numbers with revenue up, margins improving, market share expanding, you will meet an orator, as Board members are hearing what they… pic.twitter.com/gfmLd1x6XX

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