The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.
Interpretation
Success often comes with challenges and setbacks, especially during the process of a project.
This quote highlights the reality that the journey toward success is often messy and chaotic. At the core of many successful projects lies a period that may appear disorganized or overwhelming, yet it is during this tumultuous phase that essential progress is being made. The key takeaway is to embrace the struggle and chaos that can accompany the pursuit of goals, as they are often indicators of growth and development.
In practice
In a team meeting, discussing the hurdles faced during the project phase.
Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.
Organizational structures that allow divisions and departments to own their turf and people with long tenure to take root creates the same hardened group distinctions as Congressional redistricting to produce homogeneous voting blocs - all of which makes it easier to resist compromise, let alone collaboration.
The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.
I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
Leaders is the new organisation do not lack motivational tools, but the tools are different from those of traditional corporate bureaucrats. The new rewards are based not on status but on contribution, and they consist not of regular promotion and automatic pay rises, but of excitement about the mission and a share of the glory of success.
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
You never make any of the shots you never take. 87% of the ones you do take, you'll miss too. I make 110% of my shots.
Greatness and nearsightedness are incompatible. Meaningful achievement depends on lifting one's sights and pushing toward the horizon.
Fame doesn't fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.
I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate.
I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.