Powerful teams invest in process.
Did you ever play a game as a kid with made-up rules? The second anyone violated the elementary systems, chaos erupted. If the floor is lava only part of the time, the group stops playing together and starts playing their own way instead.
The same can be said for organizations going through change.
Innovation requires accepting setbacks as part of progress.
Unfortunately, setbacks are ugly. They sound fine in theory, but they never feel that way. The actual event is often harsh and unforgiving. To transform a setback into something we can learn from or reflect on, we have to change the way we think about it.
I’m frequently asked how Tetheros is different than the hundreds of other solutions out there.
And for a while, I wasn’t sure how to answer.
The future belongs to the ones who care about Meaning.