To the partners and friends of John A. Moore
Dear Friend:
All of us are so busy chasing the urgent tasks in our lives we have no time for the important. It is not just you and me and it's not just our industry, it's all of the world. The entire world seems to be plunging headlong into the future without so much as a road map sketched on the back of an envelope.
While I know we need to study the future, I believe the best rules for success come from history. My ongoing study of business has led me to believe that while technology is changing exponentially, the hearts of people aren't changing at all. We are still the same predictable creatures we've always been.
People and business seem subject to certain laws of the universe that are impervious to change. I believe the knowledge of these laws is the key to placing yourself in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing in the right way.
Let's you and I make a deal. If you will agree to pause for just six minutes a week to think about your business and your future, I'll write a blog post here at www.betthejockey.com about the timeless truths on which I and the most successful people I know have come to depend. At the end of the year, you will have spent more than three hours viewing the blurry, unknowable future through the sharp, bright lens of the past. That's exactly three hours more than any of your competitors are likely to invest in thinking, learning and planning. Like you and me, your competitors are simply too busy to plan.
Do we have a deal?
John A. Moore
All of us are so busy chasing the urgent tasks in our lives we have no time for the important. It is not just you and me and it's not just our industry, it's all of the world. The entire world seems to be plunging headlong into the future without so much as a road map sketched on the back of an envelope.
While I know we need to study the future, I believe the best rules for success come from history. My ongoing study of business has led me to believe that while technology is changing exponentially, the hearts of people aren't changing at all. We are still the same predictable creatures we've always been.
People and business seem subject to certain laws of the universe that are impervious to change. I believe the knowledge of these laws is the key to placing yourself in the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing in the right way.
Let's you and I make a deal. If you will agree to pause for just six minutes a week to think about your business and your future, I'll write a blog post here at www.betthejockey.com about the timeless truths on which I and the most successful people I know have come to depend. At the end of the year, you will have spent more than three hours viewing the blurry, unknowable future through the sharp, bright lens of the past. That's exactly three hours more than any of your competitors are likely to invest in thinking, learning and planning. Like you and me, your competitors are simply too busy to plan.
Do we have a deal?
John A. Moore
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Think, look back, look forward, plan.
This can be good.
when you look at the business world you should view it through the eyes of a child,and see the endless possibilities and boundless creativity that is available to you if you are as a child determined and without fear you will always succeed
Deal
Ray Simonson
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