Long-term or short term, radical or conventional, leadership stance or guerrilla stance, new business or existing plan, price or distribution the alternatives are limitless.
The strategy could be any or many but what is critical is deciding to walk that line and walking it bloody good.
Believe me, with enough logic you can challenge any idea or any approach (I do not know Physics and Mathematics much) but outside that almost everything can be challenged. It is well known that even the most basic principles in applied sciences were also challenged before they finally got published and accepted by the majority.
But I am not talking about Science here. I would like to limit my view to strategy. Every strategy can be challenged and yet almost any strategy could work for you if you ‘really go after it’.
More I work more I learn that strategy is just as good at the conviction and drive of those who are deciding to adopt it and execute it.
Gray mater is nothing without Grit & Gut!
No matter what we think or believe in it will remain a non-entity till we have the courage to go after it and turn it into reality. It is almost like a war cry. In the battlefield we stop thinking beyond a point. After this point we just kill, that is the only language we know (watch 300 for more on this!.
We can doubt everything. I am sure most of the readers would have blamed and doubted even God at some point in time (if not as early as yesterday or a few moments before they started reading this post or may be they would just after they have finished reading this – “how can people write such things in Blog post – looks like God has gone on vacation!”).
There is no end to thinking, no end to opinions, and no end to perspectives. But at the end it is the end that is critical and to be bloody good at the end of it one must focus on the execution.
I believe that even if half of the energy that is deployed in thinking (and doubting) were invested in making execution happen it would make a whole lot of difference to the outcome.
Someone has rightly said - real religion is the life we lead (not the thoughts we harbour!)
Real strategy is implementation not just visualization and star gazing!
Blue sky is for flying as much it is for thinking!
Sunday, September 16, 2007
You can even doubt God
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As blasphemous as the title may sound, I completely agree with your thought that conviction is essentially the backbone of every strategy. Every idea/thought/strategy is truly just as good as the strength of the belief with which it was created. You can infact relate this philosophy to the destruction caused by a bullet - its not just the carefully designed mass of metal that kills, but the velocity with which its fired.
So its true that its necessary to have conviction in your strategy/thought as you challenge just about everything in this world...even god - but what do you do when you begin to doubt the very foundation on which your conviction is based upon - your own self!
The bullet anology is very precise.
I wonder what can make a person doubt his/her own conviction.
Could the reason be that though one is having conviction but is always looking for a reassurance from the world around?
I believe a conviction is colorless/baggage free. It is even bigger than the self. In fact it defines self and I believe that self should not be easily influenced by the world around. It is something very unique and precious, formed over a period of time.
It should change only when it can benefit itself by doing it.
Self is selfish. Doubt is death.
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