Take notes.
Gather material.
Be on the lookout.
Be here.
Be now.
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Take notes.
Gather material.
Be on the lookout.
Be here.
Be now.
Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, is one of the guys that I’m always taking notes from. Back in March, I read an article in Fast Company about his decision to move the company to adopt Holacracy. Holacracy is “…a new way of running an organization that removes power from a management hierarchy and distributes it across clear roles, which can then be executed autonomously, without a micromanaging boss.”
Today, the book came in.
If you or anyone you know has implemented Holacracy, I would love to hear about the experience and learn whatever you can teach me.
I started reading it tonight and as the book reads – ‘change can be elegant’.
Sounds fun.
Click here to download in iTunes LTMP Episode 7: The dots. The lines. The circle.
You can also listen here by clicking below.
This week’s artist overview is My Morning Jacket. Be sure to purchase their new record, The Waterfall.
The song we look into is called ‘In Its Infancy (The Waterfall)’. Lyrics can be found below.
Again [x10]
The idea was always there, in it’s infancy
The seed took root, over many years
An idea grows before it walks
And as it walks, it learns to run
And as it runs, it feels it’s form
The waterfall, can it be stopped?
Again [x12]
[Chorus x2:]
Again I stop the waterfall by simply thinking
Again I stop the waterfall before my breathing
Again I stop the waterfall by finally feeling
Again I stop the waterfall by just believing
Again [x11]
Here is an interesting article by Jeremy Finch in Fast Company that is an eye opening look into Generation Z.
Didn’t know there was a generation Z? Get to know them. By 2020, they will make up 40% of all consumers.
Finch writes, It’s critical that we recognize Gen Z’s differences and meet them where they are, rather than where we want them to be. Without empathy and understanding, brands risk being filtered into obscurity. As writer Logan Pearsall Smith put it nearly 100 years ago: “Don’t laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find a face of his own.”
This is definitely an interesting thought following up last week’s conversation on Millennials.
The best thing any of us can do – for any generation – is awaken the music inside of them…and it appears we may only have 8 seconds in the potential awakening with Z.
We’ll always be looking for a face when we haven’t found our music.
Fruition and fulfillment is always realized after a series, a season, and often a lifetime of ‘again and again’.
You don’t want to know how many range balls Speith has slapped. Most likely it’s more than 99.9999% of the Earth’s population.
And it’s a safe bet that he’s not even passed the honeymoon in his marriage to the driving range.
Mastery is always preceded by the small and unnoticed ‘again and again’.
Wherever this finds you, don’t stop now.
Ashton.Gustafson 
