Innovation without change...what?
[First the apology... I get beat on at work for something dumb and I take it out on LJ. Maybe someone feels the same way]
I work for a company that wants you to "Know you are special!" They want people to "stop talking and start doing." They want me to innovate. Some of "them" also don't want me to change the way things are being done today. "Don't rock the boat!" Innovation without change...is it even possible? Sounds more like a daydream or a pipe dream (no, they weren't smoking anything.) If they had been, at least there would be some excuse. Is this like good thoughts and intentions without good deeds?
I keep thinking of the tag line I use in my work email. Some people complain it is too long. I really wish they would read it rather than complain about the length.
"The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them....A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."
Considering that it was published in 1841 by Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Self Reliance and Other Essays," I amazed that it maintains its relevance. Maybe it is even more relevant today. It isn't the desire or intent...it is the action. Do something different....something unexpected. Do something that is outside your "orbit."
Even though Samuel Johnson is often given credit for saying "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" in 1775, the real quote is much older:
"Hell is full of good intentions and desires." -- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)
I guess Albert Schweitzer may have had it right: "Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but to accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it."
But damn...I hate it when they throw the rocks at me.
http://www.davidandgoliathtees.com/games/throwrocks.html
I work for a company that wants you to "Know you are special!" They want people to "stop talking and start doing." They want me to innovate. Some of "them" also don't want me to change the way things are being done today. "Don't rock the boat!" Innovation without change...is it even possible? Sounds more like a daydream or a pipe dream (no, they weren't smoking anything.) If they had been, at least there would be some excuse. Is this like good thoughts and intentions without good deeds?
I keep thinking of the tag line I use in my work email. Some people complain it is too long. I really wish they would read it rather than complain about the length.
"The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word because the eyes of others have no data for computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loath to disappoint them....A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."
Considering that it was published in 1841 by Ralph Waldo Emerson in "Self Reliance and Other Essays," I amazed that it maintains its relevance. Maybe it is even more relevant today. It isn't the desire or intent...it is the action. Do something different....something unexpected. Do something that is outside your "orbit."
Even though Samuel Johnson is often given credit for saying "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" in 1775, the real quote is much older:
"Hell is full of good intentions and desires." -- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153)
I guess Albert Schweitzer may have had it right: "Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but to accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it."
But damn...I hate it when they throw the rocks at me.
http://www.davidandgoliathtees.com/games/throwrocks.html