Getting the right people in the right place with the right resources at the right time.
That involves the rather boring and unglamorous work of organization. Org charts, supply chains, accountants, audits...all those things that most people hate in life. Especially when it's done wrong, and supplies go to the wrong place, money goes missing, and nobody quite knows who to go to in order to get the thing done.
It also requires leadership pipelines. Identifying talent and giving people the right resources and experiences to grow into future leaders. After all, experience commanding a platoon, company, and battalion will make you much more effective when given command of a brigade.
That's what the article on innovation reminded me of. It's essentially saying that our innovation pipeline is broken. That people with wealth, who are connected to a network of other innovators, are generally identified and innovating just fine. But the system for identifying and developing innovators from the less advantaged is essentially broken.
See, here's the thing. I've heard people at the top talk about a talent shortage, and for the most part I think that's BS. Humans are just bursting with talent. I am in awe, for example, of some of the talent you can find on YouTube, or Instagram, or what-have-you.
Talent isn't the problem.
Finding and developing it is the problem. To get those awesome YouTube videos, for example, someone (or some search algorithm) has to look through a bunch of crap. And there is a LOT of crap out there.
That involves the rather boring and unglamorous work of organization. Org charts, supply chains, accountants, audits...all those things that most people hate in life. Especially when it's done wrong, and supplies go to the wrong place, money goes missing, and nobody quite knows who to go to in order to get the thing done.
It also requires leadership pipelines. Identifying talent and giving people the right resources and experiences to grow into future leaders. After all, experience commanding a platoon, company, and battalion will make you much more effective when given command of a brigade.
That's what the article on innovation reminded me of. It's essentially saying that our innovation pipeline is broken. That people with wealth, who are connected to a network of other innovators, are generally identified and innovating just fine. But the system for identifying and developing innovators from the less advantaged is essentially broken.
See, here's the thing. I've heard people at the top talk about a talent shortage, and for the most part I think that's BS. Humans are just bursting with talent. I am in awe, for example, of some of the talent you can find on YouTube, or Instagram, or what-have-you.
Talent isn't the problem.
Finding and developing it is the problem. To get those awesome YouTube videos, for example, someone (or some search algorithm) has to look through a bunch of crap. And there is a LOT of crap out there.
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