Here is something I got from another "consultant" I work with. I think he
makes a good point. I will reprint in its entirety. I might also add; I
love what I do!! Even though it is hard sometimes. I do see little
changes that keep me going.
I suspect you sometimes get frustrated when you consider the enormity of
the changes you would like to see occur in our company. And you end up
thinking, "Changing this stuff will take forever. I'll be dead and/or gone
before my vision can be realized in this company."
I suspect you sometimes feel this way because I sometimes feel this way.
And, honesty demands that I admit it's true ==> I will indeed be gone
before many of the changes I'd like to see occur in this company take
place...assuming they ever take place.
What then should one do? Give up? Eat, drink, and be merry? Go
elsewhere? Start your own company? Fight the good fight despite knowing
you will never see the fruits of your labors? Join the rat race, get your
share, forget about everyone else, and worry about number one? Try to get
to the top of the company so that you can change things for the better
when you get put in charge?
I hope to fight the good fight. Here's a quote that helps inspire me to
do that:
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we
must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes
complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be
saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished
alone; therefore we must be saved by love.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
Alex Stanton wrote this, I am only a messenger.
--"Guinn, David I" <dig@eastman.com>
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