I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan, the greatest basketballer of all time
The new rules of management are about shifting from managing systems and processes for more efficiency, and managing people like they are part of the machine, to implementing projects that matter. And while we will come to how to do this in our teams and organisations, project creation and implementation start with you personally. How are you creating and implementing the projects that make up your life?
For Stone Age humans, just the process of surviving in a hostile and unpredictable environment was fully engaging. Any day you didn’t get eaten was a good day, and being warm, dry and fed was a bonus. This struggle over hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions, of years, predisposed us to engage in the type of action that would have ensured we survived in those circumstances. The hardware you are operating with is designed to help you survive as a hunter-gatherer a hundred thousand years ago. But if you’re reading this book, your survival is pretty much a given. The fact that you are warm, dry and fed (not to mention that you haven’t been eaten today) is nothing to write home about.
Being fulfilled today requires more than surviving: the game has changed to thriving, ...
