In Jim Collin’s book Good to Great he spends an entire chapter building a metaphor of business as a flywheel. A huge flywheel. Thousands and thousands of pounds (kilograms for the rest of the world). Now start pushing on the flywheel. For a long time little, or nothing happens.
“You wouldn’t be able to answer; it’s just a nonsensical question. Was it the first push? The second? The fifth? The hundredth? No! It was all of them added together in an overall accumulation of effort applied in a consistent direction.”
The Mosta Dome of The Parish Church of St. Mary in Malta provides me with inspiration to follow Collin’s advice. Imagine the dedication and push required to build the Mosta Dome. It took decades to build with hundreds of people all creating, pushing themselves, stone by stone, until eventually the dome was finished.
How can you focus your team to push and create momentum?
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