“It is amazing what can be done when you don’t care who gets the credit.”
One of the many principles Merv Symes instilled in me when I was younger.
Was it John Wooden who said it? Or Truman? Or someone else. Like most timeless principles, the original author has been lost to history. But the Principle remains.
Ray Dalio has an entire book on principles. It is massive and contains many lessons.
Over the next couple of weeks, I’m going to post a few principles that allow me to come back to a holistic viewpoint.
Principles I’ve learned from my dad.
Principles that allow me to see the world through its systems. That allow me to use a whole-part-whole
Dave Ulrich, an HR guru who deeply influenced my day, said recently that to be successful in any domain you have to embrace paradox. Many of the principles are counterbalancing. Necessarily so.
Take the one above. The world wants shortcuts. And anyone who wants to have an impact needs a way to communicate expertise to the market.
And yet, when it comes to accomplishing anything, that expertise needs to be used in service of a greater group in pursuit of a greater goal.
The remedy is to chase outcomes that matter and worry not about about the credit.
