The first element of swarming is to identify and unleash the passion of your vision. In this journal, I track various articles related both to vision and execution.
- Seth Godin: Moving the line (the power of a zealot). Most of us don’t live on the extremes: we live in the middle. Zealots don’t move us to one end of the extreme or the other—they “move the middle.” They make the edges a little more palatable and thus move people closer to them. Are you arguing to win people to the extremes, or to win people a little closer to the goal?
- Seth Godin: The non-optimized life. There is value in measuring activity, improving it, and optimizing your life. But at some point you realize you’re spending your best energy on optimization, not on creation. While Yahoo was optimizing their home page, Google was inventing something totally new. Sometimes we need to spend less time on optimizing, and more time on creating better things.
- @MichaelHyatt: “You Can’t Build a Reputation on What You Are Going to Do.” http://ow.ly/219SQ / very good post, must read!
- Global forum inspires teens to end poverty: some times the only way to acquire a vision is to experience it. That’s the importance of short-term mission trips and big events: they inspire us.
- Poor Vision? There’s an App For That. Here’s an app for the iPhone that allows users to measure how poor their vision is. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a similar app that allows us to measure how clear our internal “vision” is? We talk a lot about spiritual giftings in the church: I wish we had a gifting for a “spiritual optometrist.”
- The Heartbreaking Truth About Flying Cars (updated): an example of a vision that’s just neither realistic nor plausible.
- Congo Needs a New Vision for Next 50 Years: over the past 14 years, more than 5 million Congolese have perished due to warfare, disease and starvation—but perhaps most of all, says Tom Austin, due to lack of vision.
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