The Song of Significance

Real value is no longer created by traditional measures of productivity. It’s created by personal interactions, innovation, creative solutions, resilience, and the power of speed.

Organizations that understand how to improve the work without undermining the worker create more value.

As a result, she’d learn more. She wanted to be in a room with people who wanted to be in the room.

But if we’re seeking to make change happen, then our job is to get from here to there. To find a path. To identify the next best thing to work on, describe an opportunity, and then make it real. If you’re a pathfinder, call it that, organize for it, and measure it.

What if we built an organization people would genuinely miss if it were gone?

You tell me where you’re going and what you need. You make promises about your commitment and skills development. I’ll show up to illuminate, question, answer, spar with, and challenge you. I’ll work tirelessly to make sure you’re part of a team of people who are ready to care as much as you do.

Tom Peters shares the story of an executive who was trying to decide which of two managers to promote. He said that his method was simple: Look at the careers of all the people who used to work for each of the two managers. And then look at the careers of the people who used to work for those people .

Significance creates change, and change is a dance with tension.

that doesn’t mean we ship junk. We can make mistakes together, in private often, testing and measuring and improving.