End Game
In a short sighted, 24 hour news cycle, instant gratification world that we live in, I have found it to be completely appropriate and profitable to always be thinking about the End Game. It isn’t just about the next week, the next month, the next year: It’s about everything that comes next.
It is about the extremely long term vision that provides the sounding board and the decision making confidence to make the next move. It is the big picture that shapes and refines the here and the now.
It is all about the End Game.
Understanding the dynamic relationship between the big vision, the strategic next steps, and the tactical hustle is an ongoing learn process for me and each endeavor that I have the opportunity to work on. Whether as the front man or the invisible hand pulling strings on behalf of others, operating with the End Game in mind is the surest way I have learned to chase down the win.
My latest thoughts on playing for the End Game; read them below.Tweet
SAM Test
This isn’t 3rd grade where there is no such thing as a bad goal, there is. ”Being Happy” is a horrible goal. The idea of happiness isn’t, but as a goal it is. How do you define “being happy?” When you have achieved that state, do you have to stay there? Or, it is a “more [...]
Resolution
I am in an incredibly awesome position as I think through what I want out of 2012. I haven’t finalized my next career move now that Gowalla has been acquired by Facebook and therefore am thinking about and writing my plans for next year with a ton of unknowns attached. And it’s awesome. For years, [...]
Rules
Most people learn how to play a new game by having someone who has played before teach them. That is the fastest way to get the game going and then “learn as you go.” But, the fastest way to win, and then likely be called a cheater, is to read the rules. Growing up, my [...]
Priority Virgin
The minutes keep passing and turning to hours The emails keep racing, unrelenting electronic powers The calls keep ringing and voices are singing The text messages cry out, new ideas need to sprout Inside the noise and outside the lines My face, my pace combusts and combines Just today, just this next very breath Holds [...]
Continuous Learning
For the past couple of years, I’ve had what might be called an “obsession” with TED and the amazing talks the world’s brightest minds share there. I watch a TEDTalk everyday that I’m in the office for lunch as a part of my hopefully life long continuous education. Since each talk is no longer than [...]
