Another winner here, Scott. How many times, in corporate contexts, as an employee, and especially as a consultant, have I been the ONLY (lonely) voice begging for people to make long terms goals—especially for product development and new areas of business?
The problem is not unique to business. In my 30 years of K-12 education work—in literally hundreds of schools nationwide and internationally (and even working on school startups and restarts)—not a single educational leader has engaged me seriously in the process of setting long term goals and road mapping the journey to achieve them.
Yet, and this is the compelling part, every “line level” employee has complained of the lack of direction from top brass.
Same goes for families.
And, tragically, for teens and post-teens as well—with the exception of those with extraordinary gifts in the arts or athletics.
This problem is endemic to contemporary culture. So much so that I am working now on a complementary fiction/nonfiction work called “In the Time of Possible Selves.”
There’s a line I use, in the voice of an “advising” character:
“Time dictates that the only directio is forward. Go carefully and with ourpose. This is a time for choice and commitment. For if you do not choose and commit, the choice will be made for you by a Universe indifferent to your genius. This is the lesson of the time of possible selves.”
Another winner here, Scott. How many times, in corporate contexts, as an employee, and especially as a consultant, have I been the ONLY (lonely) voice begging for people to make long terms goals—especially for product development and new areas of business?
The problem is not unique to business. In my 30 years of K-12 education work—in literally hundreds of schools nationwide and internationally (and even working on school startups and restarts)—not a single educational leader has engaged me seriously in the process of setting long term goals and road mapping the journey to achieve them.
Yet, and this is the compelling part, every “line level” employee has complained of the lack of direction from top brass.
Same goes for families.
And, tragically, for teens and post-teens as well—with the exception of those with extraordinary gifts in the arts or athletics.
This problem is endemic to contemporary culture. So much so that I am working now on a complementary fiction/nonfiction work called “In the Time of Possible Selves.”
There’s a line I use, in the voice of an “advising” character:
“Time dictates that the only directio is forward. Go carefully and with ourpose. This is a time for choice and commitment. For if you do not choose and commit, the choice will be made for you by a Universe indifferent to your genius. This is the lesson of the time of possible selves.”