Creating Systems Creates Results
I’m intrigued by the whole area of applying natural world systems to the business world. This area has fascinated me since I went on my first Nature excursion at nine years of age to the bushland at City Beach (Perth, Australia). We learnt about termite nest construction. Despite being young I understood that the ants were following a pattern or system to create this amazing structure.
Many years later I learn’t that the Ants have a genetic design using chemicals, scents and behaviour that is systematic.
Humans are a little different though. Burdened with self awareness we are given creative license to ignore genetic impulses and adopt all kinds of knowledge and ideas. Some for the better and some for the worse. One of these is the idea that we need to accumulate lots of knowledge. This Idea Virus or Meme has been a two edged sword for humankind for centuries. Would we have moved ahead a lot more if we applied more knowledge and hunted a little less for it? I often wonder.
So often we accumulate knowledge and it never enters a realm in which it is actioned. Systems can create this outcome for you. This isn’t any special insight I have. Most reading this know this too well but sometimes our blind-spots are right in front of us. Well I found one the other day.
When I get up in the morning I make myself a Coffee, grind the beans, etc. It’s a ritual. This gets my mind buzzing and by the time I’m on my way to work my mind is back racing with ideas and plans. Some come and go quicker than I can write them down or commit to memory. Anyway I had been losing count of the amount of times I would think, “Damn I gotta blog that.”
I had no system in place to deal with this and my blog was left underused more due to my vaporised ideas and busy day than lack of enthusiasm.
Anyway, I got a notebook and am jotting things down to remind me. Yes I know that is very X-gen, I should be more Y-gen but something about writing seems to commit better to my brain. I think its because you read it, do something physical and have thought about it. 3 checkins to my brain.
Well, with the system in place here’s the first blog post result.
