Big Things Have Small Beginnings by Wes Berry

Author:Wes Berry [Berry, Wes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Green Dragon Services
Published: 2018-11-30T06:00:00+00:00

The Written Word

Did I mention books yet? How about magazines? No matter what field you are in, no matter what your business is, you’ve got to know that there are a ton of books written about it, and at least a couple dozen magazines or trade journals, usually also available on the web, that keep its practitioners up to date with any new developments in that specialized field. Find out what they are, and be sure to get familiar with them. Then pick out the ones that you feel are essential for keeping your own work on the cutting edge, and make sure they come into your mailbox or email inbox regularly.

Don’t forget about business books in general. I guess I don’t have to dwell on that one too much, though, seeing as how you are reading this one. Nice work.

Time spent honing your skills, gaining sufficient competency with all of the tools available to you, electronic and otherwise, is time that will pay off for you in spades, in ways that will likely surprise you when they all of a sudden turn up to solve a problem for you.

Sure it takes time to master these things. But remember the little story about the brutish new axman in the northwoods timber-cutting crew. He felt since he was bigger and stronger than every other man on that crew, he should be honored as such and paid the most because of it. But his foreman pointed out that that small guy sitting on the bench over there was actually the one who chopped the most wood for this crew, so he was the one to beat.

Of course, our hero set out to do just that, coming in earlier and staying later out in the woods chopping continuously until he was sure he had out-chopped the little champion, a guy who he noticed used to sit down to rest a whole lot more than he needed to. Looked like a piece of cake.

But day after day the little champ always chopped more wood.

So when the new brute, in his agonized frustration, asked the foreman how that could possibly be, he was finally told that the little champ didn’t really sit down to rest. What he was doing while he sat was sharpening his axe.

That’s something we all have to do too, with whatever tools we have at our disposal. For leaders, there aren’t too many tools that can’t be learned when we put our minds to it. And if we’re going to play the great game, we’re likely going to need every one of them.

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