Discipline revisited ... & Dean Shrock's
"Doctor's Orders..." - (do what you love!)
05Feb2007 12:33 AM Books
In
response to learning about the Oregon Mentors (see my
post from 24 January 2007), I discovered a sequel
to Jim Collins' Good to
Great, a
monograph about the Social
Sectors, and it reminded
me not only of the importance of expanding one's
criteria for personal (and organizational)
excellence from just $ to ALL resources being in
balance (hooray for that notion!) and also a
renewed discipline for doing what you love (here's
a link to our dear and insightful friend
Dean Shrock, who wrote a
great book entitled, "Doctor's Orders: Go
Fishing" about the
medical ... and just plain happiness ...
imperative of doing what you love!
Here's a quote from the monograph that I'm posting to remind myself to keep the focus, that perhaps you, my reader, might find useful, too! (I just love to explore too many interesting avenues and adventures!)
"Social sector leaders pride themselves on "doing good" for the world, but to be of maximum service requires a ferocious focus on doing good only if it fits with your Hedgehog Concept. To do the most good requires saying "no" to pressures to stray, and the discipline to stop doing what does not fit."
Here's a quote from the monograph that I'm posting to remind myself to keep the focus, that perhaps you, my reader, might find useful, too! (I just love to explore too many interesting avenues and adventures!)
"Social sector leaders pride themselves on "doing good" for the world, but to be of maximum service requires a ferocious focus on doing good only if it fits with your Hedgehog Concept. To do the most good requires saying "no" to pressures to stray, and the discipline to stop doing what does not fit."
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