“One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
In these times, I wonder if it’s not a much shorter time frame…not ten minutes necessarily, but you get the drift…
It was about 7 years ago that I looked around, at the ripe old age of 45, and realized that I was “suddenly” (or so I thought) the old guy in every meeting.
The tactics that had got me there weren’t gonna bear themselves out any longer. For Difference Makers, it can be extraordinarily difficult to consume and accept that the stuff that got us our first promotion, our first sale, our first serious partner — aren’t the stuff of progress.
Strategy trumps most everything else — except, I believe, talent. But the tactics, direction and outcome toward that strategy are worth constant evaluation and assessment. Superiority? Viability? Believe-ability? Credibility?
They all might hinge on making sure we have clear synch in our tactical approach.
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