Another thing I learned

I am performing another SWIPE (That is Steal With Integrity and Pride Everywhere) from Arlin's email. (now also on his blog)

"Kathy in Florida – the idea that most businesses start out a soloist whom is very good, then surrounds themselves with a few others like them and creates a jazz band which is made up of stars that agree to play together with some loose direction, and finally needs to become an orchestra where the conductor leads the group of extremely gifted players down a single path focused on the end result of playing perfectly together. What a powerful illustration. That is so true of small businesses today. The different transitions are the hard part. That final transition to becoming part of an orchestra the biggest change as everyone has to be willing to give up their own desire to be a star in order to give their all to the sound from the entire group, which done right is always better than any one player alone."

Quoted from Email sent on May 17th Arlen Sorensen (Also in his blog)

One of the best illustrations I have heard in a long time