277.
Week 277. This is a midweek edition because it took me a few extra days to finish what I was working on. For that reason, I’ll keep the intro short and look forward to writing more this weekend.
Hurricane Ida — I’ve never seen anything like this:
The assessment and rebuilding in Louisiana is just getting started. The last I saw — about 1 million people were without power, water and sewage is not functioning and estimates are 3 weeks to get it back on.
What’s being right about the future worth?
I ask because it occurs to me there are no shortage of “good idea guys” in our organizations. I always believed that a good idea would carry the day on it’s merits and that would open up opportunities for me within the companies I worked for. The reality is that good ideas are a dime a dozen. The ability and willingness to create a plan (strategy?) to operationalize the idea is even better. Still not the final step, but much farther along than the good idea guys. Finally, there is the vision to see the idea from birth to operational AND the position in the right organization to make it happen.
Predicting the future is only valuable if you can do something about it.
In all these motivational Instagram feeds, the mantra is “don’t predict the future, create it.” (I also saw that quote attributed to both Abraham Lincoln and Peter Drucker).
I’ve done a lot of future-predicting over the years in Saturday Cup of Joe.
The key, I’ve learned, is how to use it. It’s true that the ideas themselves are not the special sauce. Being able to paint a vision or inspire a new project (even if…
