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Will this fire somebody up? Will this motivate other people? Will this take things to the next level?”
Everything is being fed to this dragon. The dragon’s eating this coal of ideas, and I find myself completely and utterly obsessed with that. My follow- through is my Achilles heel. I just am firing on so many things.
Do you have any other thoughts or comments?
Rarely share all of your thoughts with anybody. Journalling is a great way to get it out without polluting. Be very selective about sharing.
ANDREW: I think the world needs eagles: these are the visionaries and dreamers who fly high and see things from high above. But the world also needs the turtles, those close to the ground, very detail-oriented and who get things done. Every company that exists, has existed, or will exist, from Apple to Honda, to Google to Microsoft, started with eagles but then had to hire thousands of turtles.
Every company was started by someone who was a visionary, a big thinker, a disrupter. Otherwise, why would they have created the company? It had to be someone who questioned the status quo and created something totally new. As the Apple ad said: these were people who “Think different”. Not differently, but different. There’s a difference, and they made all the difference. They cre- ated their companies through sheer will, but then they had to hire people, often hundreds or thousands of people who were non-visionaries, people who created and improved the systems that the businesses needed to function. That’s me — the NonVisionary, the Executioner, the Cleanup Crew.
Gerber would argue that big enterprises are just technicians who made the transition to managers and entrepreneurs.
MICHAEL: That’s why I’m calling this book, Sorry, We’re Not Hiring Any Vi- sionaries Today. Because I agree that the world needs a lot more people to do the work of systematizing things. You talked about being in school, getting
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