Season Finales set up the next season. Their magic is in taking a break and creating that tension between the end and the new beginning. I was recently reading Patrick Stewart’s Make it So, where he pointed out the Borg cliffhanger that left many of us young Star Trek fans, waiting, patiently, very patiently, running through scenarios as to what would happen when the series began anew. We don’t have season finales in our work…
New teams… Offer new chances. New possibilities. New directions. New opportunities. New paths. New ideas. If you’re willing to embrace it.
New Initiatives need a champion, they need someone to take the lumps and hits and push forward on them. New Initiatives are never easy, because the resistance is great and the pushback is real. That’s why initiatives need champions, with backpacks, because they have a lot to carry.
If you’re happy with your reach, you don’t need to do anything. If you want to increase your reach, you’re going to need to do something, it won’t come to you. It won’t “just happen”. Make a plan, buy the tools you need to help you, and ask people for help. But know that if you want to extend your reach, it starts with you, and no one else.
Careers are exactly like video games. You start off not knowing what to do so you plod along and stuff “happens”. Then you figure out you want to get better at something, perhaps even “specialize”. So you get good at that thing, invest in yourself, get the tools and you become better at what you do. Then like anything, you get to the point where you need to learn the tips and tricks and master…