> My failure to convince others makes it _appear_ like I am skating where the puck is going, when I was simply following it down an obvious path, and no one else was.
It's not like there is a difference isn't it? Gretsky probably thought other players were stupid or were poisoned by lead or something.
#1 is the lonliest number, you are at the local top, meaning the local #1
What you are experiencing goes with the territory, you should focus your efforts on hyping yourself up as the individual sitting at the local top, instead of ruminating on the collective organizational goals which are not being reached in the most streamlined and effortless way because other people aren't at your level.
But you can still try to stimulate them to improve like Gretsky himself and Jordan did in their own teams.
But I have been horribly wrong also, so I'm not so inclined to lead boldly. I think Jordan and Gresky had the benefit that their team also thought they knew what was best.
> But I have been horribly wrong also, so I'm not so inclined to lead boldly
I think Musk spews a lot of BS, but one thing I agree with him is that if you think you have an edge you want to bet frequently because as the high frequency will have your edge manifest itself and you'd end up better/way better than random.
Also yet another important point is that your competitor is not somebody who is Omniscient and gets it right 100% of the times, but people who hold your same role in competing organizations.
So being wrong is not terrible, unfortunately the terrible part is that unlike sports the mistakes of people in your same position in competing organizations are hidden from your collegues and teammates. Hence the grass is always greener, and the comparison immediately skips to the Omniscient being.
That is a huge problem, and I don't know if it will ever be solved given that work is unspectacular and there is not a trail of events and decisions which can be publicly examined.
No such thing as a highlight reel (and even there was, nobody would ever bother looking at it.)
It's not like there is a difference isn't it? Gretsky probably thought other players were stupid or were poisoned by lead or something.
#1 is the lonliest number, you are at the local top, meaning the local #1
What you are experiencing goes with the territory, you should focus your efforts on hyping yourself up as the individual sitting at the local top, instead of ruminating on the collective organizational goals which are not being reached in the most streamlined and effortless way because other people aren't at your level.
But you can still try to stimulate them to improve like Gretsky himself and Jordan did in their own teams.