Another solid submission. You do incredibly well with a weekly deadline, I am so jealous of your consistent ability to produce. I particularly liked the knots v. haze quote. I had not heard it before, yet it rang very true. I found my mind wandering when I read your posit on early adoption and its roll in both a personal and professional context. Especially when considering the podcast from last week with the tension between the SME and the young leader. Are the SMEs the "early adopters" because they are closest to the "market", and most apt to feel opportunity, or are they laggards, content in doing what worked yesterday. Obvious rhetorical question, meant only to show that I read your post, enjoyed it, and it got me thinking.
Brett, As always, thank you for reading and for your thoughtful comments. Believe me, the weekly deadline scares me, and I am almost always up against it. But, I think it is good for me to require production. Eventually I would like to get a few weeks ahead, but I don't see that as a near term possibility. I do keep a notebook with ideas that I have started trying to flesh out to get ahead of the game. 'Quartered Safe Out Here' is a good memoir and worthy of a read. I found a copy in Heritage Hall and brought it home. It is interesting because it was written fifty years after the events. As to your question I think it depends. I have been working on an analogy relating leadership to a large many-drawered mechanics tool chest (not original, I know), but it has to do with the levels I am tentatively calling: Doer, doer leader, leader doer, leader of doers, leader of leaders. I think there are early adopters who start inventing tools to tackle challenges, and plenty of laggards who return time and time again to the hammer. I love your questions, and comments. As always, thanks for reading.
Range is on my reading list this year!
Another solid submission. You do incredibly well with a weekly deadline, I am so jealous of your consistent ability to produce. I particularly liked the knots v. haze quote. I had not heard it before, yet it rang very true. I found my mind wandering when I read your posit on early adoption and its roll in both a personal and professional context. Especially when considering the podcast from last week with the tension between the SME and the young leader. Are the SMEs the "early adopters" because they are closest to the "market", and most apt to feel opportunity, or are they laggards, content in doing what worked yesterday. Obvious rhetorical question, meant only to show that I read your post, enjoyed it, and it got me thinking.
Brett, As always, thank you for reading and for your thoughtful comments. Believe me, the weekly deadline scares me, and I am almost always up against it. But, I think it is good for me to require production. Eventually I would like to get a few weeks ahead, but I don't see that as a near term possibility. I do keep a notebook with ideas that I have started trying to flesh out to get ahead of the game. 'Quartered Safe Out Here' is a good memoir and worthy of a read. I found a copy in Heritage Hall and brought it home. It is interesting because it was written fifty years after the events. As to your question I think it depends. I have been working on an analogy relating leadership to a large many-drawered mechanics tool chest (not original, I know), but it has to do with the levels I am tentatively calling: Doer, doer leader, leader doer, leader of doers, leader of leaders. I think there are early adopters who start inventing tools to tackle challenges, and plenty of laggards who return time and time again to the hammer. I love your questions, and comments. As always, thanks for reading.