Friday Thoughts August 13

Jason Seiden has a great post here about low-hanging fruit. Basically, he says, low-hanging fruit is uninspiring. ‘I go apple picking every year with my family, and every year, I hear the same refrain: “Daddy, I want that one, up there! Can you put me on your shoulders? Pleeeeaaaase?” My kids don’t want to pick low hanging fruit, they want to pick the best fruit, wherever it happens to be on the tree, and—no surprise here—it usually ends up being up near the top, where fewer people can reach.’ I gotta agree, and yet that is a phrase we hear in meetings all the time, it seems to be code for “what is easy? what is low-risk?” Yet the easy, low-risk stuff is seldom the good stuff. Anyway, great metaphor for how corporations think. I don’t know about you, but I want to feel inspired, and climbing to the top of the tree for the big juicy apple is more inspiring than looking at low-hanging fruit (that others have probably already passed up…for some reason). ’nuff said, carry on, and be inspired and inspiring!