“The Tau of Steves: What You Don’t Know Could Fill a Book”
“5” Steve Nash, 45: “The cutting edge is cool. They there’s the bleeding edge, where one works purposefully toward one’s own obsolescence, clearing the way for the future.” Aquarius
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My Saturday dragged me into laying the foundation for the Volume Two manuscript, the Work portion of “Live. Love. Work. Play. Invest. Leave a Legacy.”
More complications centered on internal inconsistencies created when I compared my 16 talent profiles to the 16 temperaments of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator — a well-known mainstay in psychological and career development circles.
Hi and welcome to Saturday’s Episode 78 in the first season of ” My 1-Year Experiment” on this seventeenth day of August in the summer of 2019.
My original research identified four basic organization types in which each organization’s talent culture would attract or repel talent profiles — so from your own career perspective you could tell in which organization you would find your best fit. And, your worst fit.
And, based on my last ten years of advising hundreds of Executive MBA students, you could identify which stage of growth or decline and reinvention you’d also find your best and worst fits.
Let’s see what the Holiday Tau has in store for Steve Zahn, Henry Winkler, Emma the Baroness and me.
It’s Saturday, for crying out loud. This is supposed to be a fun day. But I get what needs to be considered and it fits. And, by the way, would fit the culture of a Paradox-Moron organization.
“5” Steve Zahn, 51: “To demand the impossible is to accept striving as the norm, reaching as a resting posture and dreaming as a waking responsibility.” Scorpio
Random ones that make me want change my sign.
Sure, that’s one interpretation of work. I’m more interested in why work brings out the best in us, or not, for those of us working for someone else as an employee.
“3” Steve McQueen (1930 – 1980): “Work comes in many forms. Wherever an outcome is expected and there’s a person responsible, that’s work.” Aries
Haha. Message received.
“3” Steve Howey, 42: “You’re fascinating, but resist the urge to talk about yourself today. When you drop ‘I’ from your conversation, magical things will happen.” Cancer
This Holiday Tau for the two comedians and company founder resonates. In a way earlier version I described how if you climbed The Ridge you changed your perspective and how you might proceed strategically.
“5” Steve Carell, 57; Steve Martin, 74; Steve Wozniak, 69: “Seek not escape but refuge in a higher perspective. There, you can see everything that’s going on and decide where your participation is best applied.” Leo
Ok. I’ll take GG&K’s Holiday Tau and challenge. When I’m overworked, I appeal to my muse and ask , “What would Leo da V do?”
“5” Steve Greene, 34; Steve Guttenberg, 61; Stephen King, 72: “Your imagination is being aloof. Consider offering your imagination an invitation in the form of a blank page, a white canvas, a lit stage.” Virgo
Only, not just now after a long week of reigning in my instinctual impulses with a self-imposed system of tracking how I spent my time 1/2 hour at a time.
“3” Steve Aoki, 41: “Anything that stops you from feeling what’s in your heart is blocking you from your power. You’re brave and ready to face more, feel more and be more.” Sagittarius
Is there a Holiday Tau that describes how I’ve maneuvered my career so far? Yup. And, it’s the mission, core foundation and purpose of Paradoxy-Moron Organizations everywhere. Count me in.
“5” Steve Nash, 45: “The cutting edge is cool. They there’s the bleeding edge, where one works purposefully toward one’s own obsolescence, clearing the way for the future.” Aquarius
Haha. Job’s led a Paradox-Moron company in both chapters at Apple and in his third at Pixar. But, somehow Nash received Job’s Tau for the day. It’s ok. I’ll swipe it anyway. And twist it slightly to mean, I enjoy helping people pick the best fit in an organization or stage of growth for them.
“4” Steve Jobs, (1955 – 2011): “People usually choose what they understand to be the best course of action. Providing better things in any form is saintly work.” Pisces
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