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Where Is the Key to Performance?
An old man was walking home late one night when he saw a friend on his knees under a street light, searching for something. “What are you doing?” he asked his friend.
“I dropped the key to my house.”
“I’ll help you look.” After a few minutes of frustrated searching, the old man asked, “Where exactly were you when you dropped this key?”
His friend pointed toward the darkness. “Over there.”
“Then why are you looking for it here?”
“Because this is where the light is.”
This Sufi parable illustrates something that is all too common in companies and personal lives: many of us search for, but can’t ever seem to find, the key to performance.
The search itself makes sense. Performance is what matters, and that comes ...
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