Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 1/4/16
W
e can see that some things are, empirically, enduring: Mozart’s symphonies, Michaelangelo’s art, Armstrong’s jazz, Dickens’s novels, Sinatra’s songs, Anne Frank’s diary, air travel, cell phones. Who knows about rap, Lady Gaga, reality television, man buns, solar power, or self-driving cars? My point is the praxis of creating and sustaining lasting worth.
Our job, I think, is to do more than put a band aid on an issue, or even to solve that problem. It’s rather to create permanent solutions, continuing improvements, lasting and repeatable benefits. “Reinventing the wheel” is a useful apothegm because it reminds us that, while we can do it, it’s not terribly helpful. Better leeches were not as helpful as penicillan. As Henry Ford reported, “If I had listened to what my customers desired I would have bred faster horses.”
Think past work, past jobs, past careers. Think about what we can do to create not merely a trail, but a legacy.
B
e yourself; everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde
Alan in Australia: Two independent days, one on dramatially growaing business and the next on the mindset required to create and sustain it: http://www.alanweiss.com/growth-experiences/alans-workshops-in-sydney-australia/ There is a bonus workshop on high stakes transitions: http://www.alanweiss.com/growth-experiences/consulting-in-high-stakes-transitions/
Million Dollar Consulting® Convention: In LA in March, the best such conference in the world. My featured guest is Marshall Goldsmith, and we have an all-star faculty: http://www.alanweiss.com/growth-experiences/million-dollar-consulting-convention/
