Comments on Master of the System: Creating opportunities in a corporate world

To be honest, this vacation has done more for allo...

2007-04-30T01:47:00.000-04:00

To be honest, this vacation has done more for allowing me to think than any project I've been on in the last year. I think I'm at the right time to really push my thoughts and ideas out of my head and get them down on “paper.” Lots more to come over this week.

I second e's comments! It's great to see you're t...

2007-04-30T01:31:00.000-04:00

I second e's comments! It's great to see you're thinking so freely again, and I'm really glad to see so many thought-provoking blog posts.

There's a saying in Aikido, that you can tell your technique is perfect when two things are true. You perform it with an opponent as if there were no opponent; and you perform it without an opponent as though facing one.

Your point that the company shouldn't focus too much on "competing" speaks to the same principle. It's not that they should ignore the competition; just that the company's "technique" shouldn't overreact to the competition.

All-in-all, I'm glad your vacation is giving you room to think, again. Don't let thinking get in the way of vacation ;-)

You are on your way. People with ideas tend to thi...

2007-04-29T14:39:00.000-04:00

You are on your way. People with ideas tend to think a lot faster then the rest - gathering up enough patience to bring them along the path of your thinking is both an art and a science. It's not so much writing a business plan as it is being able to communicate your idea's benefits clearly and how they could be implemented effectively.

One other thing to think about is how are you going to measure success and how will you incorporate feedback into your plan.

But you should also do NONE of this during the week of 30 April 07.