Amazon’s energy internally comes from its desire to impress its customers. This means reinventing normal and delivering products before customers even know they want them. Some companies may rely on customer surveys and market research to understand their users. This is especially dangerous when designing and inventing new products. “Good inventors and designers deeply understand their customer. They spend tremendous energy developing that intuition.” “A remarkable customer experience starts with the heart, intuition, curiosity, play, guts, taste. You won’t find any of it in a survey.”
What percentage of the work you do each day is work where the process (the 'right answer') is known? Jobs where you replicate a process instead of inventing one... The place where we can create the most value is when we do a job where exploration and a new solution is what's needed. Not routine, but exploration. Which means we're doing something that's not been done before, something that might not work. This isn't something to avoid, it's the work we need to seek out. -Seth Godin again.
That you don't know how to do what needs to be done.
That you're afraid to do what needs to be done.
It's frustrating. We want to move up, we want our project to make more of an impact, we want to deliver -but the undone work hangs over us. If you care enough, the path forward is clear, isn't it? You can model what needs to be done, basing your next steps on what others have done before you. You can ask your boss or your clients for an agenda. You can test and test again. You can leap. You can learn how to do what you don't know how to do. You can improve your skills, get better tools and do the hard work of actually getting better at the work. But most of all, you can realize that the most urgent work is the work of dancing with our fear, because the fear is the real reason the work isn't getting done. -Seth Godin.
It’s one of the most satisfying occupations man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there’s always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do. Talent is an advantage but I know a lot of talented failures. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.
I just happened to read a very good sermon today on the subject of cohabitation (living together, with sexual intimacy, without marriage). The key points were: (1) Christian morality on this point hasn't changed. (2) Sociological and economic data show that cohabitation is a bad deal. "Trial marriages" don't prevent divorce; they increase it. And couples who won't make a commitment together can't in honesty plan their future together. So what would I ask a couple who decide to live together and perhaps have children without getting married? My question for any cohabiting couple would be, "Where do you expect to be in ten years?" Almost invariably, one of the two does expect to be married, and the other expects not to be married — in effect, expects to break up. And when you break up, you will be turning someone loose on the world after having used up a good bit of her or his life. Will that give your ex-partner a good life in the future? But maybe, when you break up, you expect to be tired of your partner, and angry, and not to care about the other person's future. You see the underlying theme of exploitation rather than love. Cohabitation = lack of agreement = taking advantage of someone, getting them to give what you won't give. Married in 1971, still together and still smiling!
SAP Arena, Samstag 16.09. Neil Diamond nahm die 7000 Zuschauer mit auf eine Reise in die Vergangenheit, dorthin, wo die Erinnerung an die eigene Jugend wohnt, fest eingebettet in nostalgische Videoaufnahmen. 26 Stücke inklusive Zugaben präsentierte er mit seiner virtuosen elfköpfigen Band. Angefangen hat er 1966 in New York mit seiner ersten Komposition "Solitary Man". Er hat so viele Welthits geschrieben, dass die Qualität von "Solitary Man" in den Hintergrund trat. Es ist nichts weniger als ein amerikanisches Liederbuch: "Cherry, Cherry", "I'm A Believer", "Cracklin' Rosie", "Sweet Caroline", "Beautiful Noise", "Holly Holy", "Red Red Wine" "Song Sung Blue" und natürlich das grandiose "I Am ... I Said". Alle Stücke sind auf "Hot August Night" verewigt, und er hat sie auch in dieser Mannheimer Samstagnacht gespielt. Rund 130 Millionen Platten hat er verkauft, damit zählt er zu den erfolgreichsten Musikern des Planeten. 37 Top-10-Singles, 16 Top-10-Alben, Grammys, Golden Globes und andere Ehrungen. Wie hier so auch in Mannheim die Höhepunkt (So good, So good.....):
