Putting yourself out there with your convictions is risky. So is playing it safe.
In the end, which will you regret more, doing or not doing?
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Back To The Saturday Run
One of the challenges with our business world is that the people who are capable of decision making are not capable of keeping up with technology. Many reasons for this, and it really doesn’t even matter.
Yet the people who keep up with technology and understand it’s potential, particularly with social media, are not in decision-making positions.
This forms an unfortunate paradox.
Every once in a while there are exceptions to the rule. I planted a seed with a fellow midlife runner on our Saturday run. Not sure he got it. Or that he can even remotely consider it.
Sooner, rather than later, this will create an opportunity point. Or not. And so it goes. Life. Hard decision. Risks. Boundary pushing.
But the potential rewards are enormous. Gigantic.
This is one of my favorite things about running. And about life.
Everything Involves Risk
Even playing it safe.
Playing It Safe Is Risky
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Age-old wisdom.
We all know this, and we all understand the ramifications.
It’s a catch-22.
Darned if you don’t, darned if you do.
So what do you do?
Play it safe?
Too risky.
Take the risk?
Still too risky.
Is there a middle ground?
You Can’t Be Serious
When I said, “Nobody is upping their game and working harder than they ever have in their entire lives“, it dawned on me that further explanation may help.
Most people are working harder than they ever have, but that’s not what I meant by working harder.
Huh?
What we are talking about here is working harder to innovate, not harder to keep our jobs. Although, intuitively, more and better innovation should actually catapult people.
It doesn’t.
And this is why no one is doing it.
Except the linchpins.
No one is focused on innovation because innovation requires change and risk.
Change and risk make you stand out. Change and risk in today’s climate can get you in trouble.
Who wants that?
Nobody. Not even the Linchpins.