Agility: Management Principles for A Volatile World

10 January: How often do you focus on the process?


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Today is January 10 and the Navigate the Chaos question to consider is: "How often do you focus on the process?" Those who navigate the chaos like cartoonist Scot Adams understand the value of focusing on the process. In his 2013 book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life, Adams highlights two important aspects of his success: “Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas;” and “Goals are for losers. Focus on the process.” As Thomas Edison observed "The successful person makes a habit of doing what the failing person doesn't like to do." 

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Agility: Management Principles for A Volatile WorldBy Michael Edmondson, Ph.D.