justplainbil

Just Plain Bill

I learned a new word,

and it’s all about me

Seth Godin, best selling author, relentless blogger, and business evangelist, just taught me a new word, plyometrics.

·     Plyometrics

·       Explosive action. Training by jumping from a standing start. Not worrying about getting up to speed, but going from standing still to flight.

Not everyone needs to be good at this, but you can bet that most organizations need people who are.

Not, "I'll think about it," or, "I'll ask Susan what her take is," or, "Let's reconvene tomorrow..." but, instead, words like, "go," and "now." Perhaps it’s a little more than “ready, fire, aim.”

Plyometrics is an attitude, the willingness (the bravery) to try things on small groups, in controlled situations, to say, "Here, I did this, or I made this."

It's not a slipshod way of doing business for your core customers (that's another form of hiding). No, it's the posture of urgency.

Seth asks, “Will you leap?”

To that question I answer a definite “yes,” which may seem to be a little out of place for someone who is late into his seventh decade, at a time in one’s life when a “rocking chair” style is usually in order.