Michael Beitz - Avoid Conversation Table (2012)
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Why don’t successful people and organizations automatically become very successful? One important explanation is due to what I call “the clarity paradox,” which can be summed up in four predictable phases:
Phase 1: When we really have clarity of purpose, it leads to success.
Phase 2: When we have success, it leads to more options and opportunities.
Phase 3: When we have increased options and opportunities, it leads to diffused efforts.
Phase 4: Diffused efforts undermine the very clarity that led to our success in the first place.
Curiously, and overstating the point in order to make it, success is a catalyst for failure.
— Harvard Business Review’s Greg McKeown, synthesizing insights from Jim Collins’s How the Mighty Fail. (via explore-blog)(via explore-blog)
NASA | SDO’s Ultra-high Definition View of 2012 Venus Transit (by NASAexplorer)
