I am curious about about the ability of groups to work together. For a cause on a voluntary basis.
Do the people who are in the top 1% find it easier to work with others? I suspect that trust is harder to dispense when one is a member of the 1% tier. I would think that it would be harder to have people work together for a cause.
I think people that have a common misfortune or purpose would find it easier to mobilize people behind them. I am specifically thinking of the march we witnessed around the world after the killing of George Floyd. I don't remember the world coming together and marching for causes that didn't have something to do with discrimination and injustice.
With the premise that it is easier to get people together for a common cause, the next task becomes - how to keep people engaged in the hard work. How to keep people focused on what needs to be done.
I can see that religion and race are two powerful causes that move people with different background. I keep thinking of Israel. The way the country came to existence. The collaboration and effectiveness in creating a self-sufficient nation that continues to attract Jewish people from all around the world.
I am very curious to understand the planning, the communication, the execution and the maintenance that a goal of that magnitude can entail. No matter my stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict, I am in awe of the execution. Anyone have a book recommendation?
Do the people who are in the top 1% find it easier to work with others? I suspect that trust is harder to dispense when one is a member of the 1% tier. I would think that it would be harder to have people work together for a cause.
I think people that have a common misfortune or purpose would find it easier to mobilize people behind them. I am specifically thinking of the march we witnessed around the world after the killing of George Floyd. I don't remember the world coming together and marching for causes that didn't have something to do with discrimination and injustice.
With the premise that it is easier to get people together for a common cause, the next task becomes - how to keep people engaged in the hard work. How to keep people focused on what needs to be done.
I can see that religion and race are two powerful causes that move people with different background. I keep thinking of Israel. The way the country came to existence. The collaboration and effectiveness in creating a self-sufficient nation that continues to attract Jewish people from all around the world.
I am very curious to understand the planning, the communication, the execution and the maintenance that a goal of that magnitude can entail. No matter my stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict, I am in awe of the execution. Anyone have a book recommendation?
I believe you and I are in the same boat regarding execution. We've finally stumbled upon how to execute, but we still don't do it regularly... and still are far from mastering it.
People probably pontificate how to improve the execution of others because in their head they think that if they can lead people this way somehow they can outsource all the hard work... this plus also we study a lot of already successful people and those people have reached a stage where delegation and the fostering of others' execution is the game.
However, how masters are is not how they got there.
From studying a lot of top performing organizations/teams, my current standpoint is that there is no way to lead from the start unless you come in with proven experience... like let's say your someone like
Besides that you just have to find something your willing to execute on and do it well for long enough for it to attract other like-purposed people who you can then collaborate with.
Also in my experience I think the top performers find it easier to work with others because they are more stingy about who they work with. Beginners are more willing to just say yes and agree to work on projects in a moment of inspiration but not really have the stamina to see things through.
Thank you for the comments. Execution is a topic I want to get better at. Both at an individual level and a macro level.