Dave Vucina
CEO
Wayport Inc.

The Secret at the Top of the Mountain

Reaching the level of senior executive in a credible and meaningful company is an achievement that is viewed by many as “climbing to the top of the mountain.”  It’s a significant accomplishment to those that desire it and even to many of those who don’t.

In many ways, one can even bask in the glory of “making it.”

“Whatever I did and whoever I am has served me very well in the business world.” For sure, you’ll see many executives who will not outwardly demonstrate a public display of this thinking; but you can bet they have thought about it.  Over the course of time, they will have had many discussions with themselves about how they have broken the code for what is needed to get to the top.

Here is the most interesting piece to the above and what so many of us do not know…

Buried deep down in all of this kind of thinking, at whatever level of “making it” has taken place within an individual, is the creation and implementation of a system that has  served to propel you to a high level of  success and has been the key formula to carrying out your life’s work.

Now, get ready for this… more than anything else, that same success formula is at the core of what is limiting you!  That’s right, it’s holding you back, big time; and more than you will ever know!

How can this be, you may ask. It is the very reason for my performance success!  By today’s “man made” standards, the formula “is” the reason for your success; but it is also the reason you cannot climb above the mountain and experience a whole new set of possibilities.

For so many years I believed I had the magic formula nailed, most things figured out, my secret success formula calculated to perfection.  Then I had the opportunity to participate in a formal and deep study of my past assumptions and habits.  This deep down dive into self examination soon became all about unleashing an unknown power, one so compelling that I became astonishingly aware of my current and past limitations…and my future possibilities!

Wow,  something powerful is happening here…my secret formula had served me well but also surrounded me in a never ending “shell” of limitation   Finally – teachings so meaningful that a real transformation can take place, one that goes beyond anything previously experienced.  Technology that provides you the tools to make many things that seemed impossible very possible.

Over 30+ years of business dealings,  mixed with a steady diet of business and life books,  regular attendance of every seminar known to man,  and even a sabbatical from work in the middle of my career to live and learn executively while buried at Stanford for three weeks,  never made this kind of an impact or difference.  The technology utilized by Crossroads and Barry Pogorel is the single most explosive and productive learning experience I have experienced in life to date!  Barry’s work is engaging, dynamic, mind blowing, revealing, and most importantly, results oriented.

After each member of our senior executive team attended The Forward, we felt compelled to have each of our 21 directors participate also.  Because of this experience, the management team at Wayport is beginning to enjoy a new level of performance that we could not even identify previously.   The future is very bright at our company and the possibilities are endless as we get ready to climb “way beyond” the top of the mountain.

Additional comment by Dave:

Your work with us allowed us to take our entire execution and performance “game” to an entirely new level. At the heart of our culture was value creation for all of our stakeholders and your work gave us the necessary tools, as a leadership team, to be very focused on creating value in our space when others could not. This resulted in us redefining our goals and “what was possible” to a higher standard. I think the point here is that this is not typically done. Your work allowed us to eliminate “the way things are normally done” and do things out of the ordinary, reach for a higher goal, make sense of it and execute. Simply put, without your work we would have set our sights lower and achieved a lower result.