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Misguided Brilliance - What is it?
I used to work at a very peculiar company. It was very progressive and very successful. Many millionaires were made from this company. It hasn't been around very long.
Anyway, one of the things that makes this (high-tech) company successful is their ability to attract amazing people. After all it is the people that make any company. Ask anybody with Merger & Acquisition experience and they will tell you that the product almost doesn't matter. If you get the right (talented) people you could sell anything to anybody.
This company was a triple shot of good fortune. They had the right people and they had the right product and at the right time. Needless to say they skyrocketed in value and size.
Back to the story.
I was sitting in a meeting, at a large oblong table with a dozen people at the top of their game. we were discussing strategies and plans of action. In particular we were focused on the A53-173b product. (Note that this isn't the real product. I made this number up. But it doesn't matter. It's all the same.)
Ideas were flowing freely amongst the group and I was amazed at the brilliance in the room. Really. I'm serious here. These are some smart people.
And a thought hit me like a thunderbolt.
Why were they spending this brilliance on the A53-173b product? Why don't they apply this brilliance to something that really matters. Next year the 173b will become the 173c and the b will be long forgotten. If you extrapolate this a bit then next century all of this will be a silliness.
Why do we spend so much of our brilliance on so much that matters so little. Why don't we spend it on things that really matters?
Why is our brilliance so misguided?
Somewhere in the past we made a wrong turn and have been following the wrong path all this way.
Misguided Brilliance will look into the past and find out where we went wrong. I will stand at the fork in the road and point you to the right path.
more coming, come back
I used to work at a very peculiar company. It was very progressive and very successful. Many millionaires were made from this company. It hasn't been around very long.
Anyway, one of the things that makes this (high-tech) company successful is their ability to attract amazing people. After all it is the people that make any company. Ask anybody with Merger & Acquisition experience and they will tell you that the product almost doesn't matter. If you get the right (talented) people you could sell anything to anybody.
This company was a triple shot of good fortune. They had the right people and they had the right product and at the right time. Needless to say they skyrocketed in value and size.
Back to the story.
I was sitting in a meeting, at a large oblong table with a dozen people at the top of their game. we were discussing strategies and plans of action. In particular we were focused on the A53-173b product. (Note that this isn't the real product. I made this number up. But it doesn't matter. It's all the same.)
Ideas were flowing freely amongst the group and I was amazed at the brilliance in the room. Really. I'm serious here. These are some smart people.
And a thought hit me like a thunderbolt.
Why were they spending this brilliance on the A53-173b product? Why don't they apply this brilliance to something that really matters. Next year the 173b will become the 173c and the b will be long forgotten. If you extrapolate this a bit then next century all of this will be a silliness.
Why do we spend so much of our brilliance on so much that matters so little. Why don't we spend it on things that really matters?
Why is our brilliance so misguided?
Somewhere in the past we made a wrong turn and have been following the wrong path all this way.
Misguided Brilliance will look into the past and find out where we went wrong. I will stand at the fork in the road and point you to the right path.
more coming, come back
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