Chance favors the prepared
A friend was telling me the other day that she went to work for her company because on a fluke she saw a sign on their headquarters that said they had won the Malcolm Baldridge National Award – she said, “I’m a goober who just thinks quality is so important particularly when running an organization.”
I was thinking about loving your job and being excited about the possibilities of future growth within an organization. That notion is starting to seem like an anachronism as I speak to people I have known for more than a decade about their working environment and their disillusionment.
I think we are in a malaise much in the way Jimmy Carter called it back in the late 70s – and recently I saw our economics compared to the 70s – a friend today said that chance favors those in motion, but I wanted to correct her and say motion is not what is rewarded, because the tap dancing manager is in motion, chance favors the prepared, but like most things in life these days even an age old adage begs the question: “how does one prepare for an uncertain future?” Chance?