Climbing mountains is another process that serves as an example for grow and evolve to a higher level both business and life. Many people don't understand that how you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top. You can solo climb Everest without using oxygen, or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in six thousand feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling and one pushing you. You just dial in
"10,000 Feet" on your oxygen bottle, and up you go.
Typical high-powered, rich plastic surgeons and CEOs who attempt to climb Everest this way are so fixated on the target, the summit, that they compromise on the process. The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.
Just as doing risk sports will create stresses that lead to a bettering of one's self, so should a company constantly stress itself in order to grow. Our company has always done its best work whenever we've had a crisis. I've never been so proud of our employees as in 1994, when the entire company was mobilized to change over from using traditional cotton to organically grown by 1996. It was a crisis that led to writing down our philosophies. When there is no crisis, the wise leader or CEO will invent one. Not by crying wolf but by challenging the employees with change.
You might think that a nomadic society packs up and moves when things get bad. However, a wise leader knows that you also move when everything is going too well; everyone is laid-back, lazy, and happy.
Subscribing to the concept of natural growth of the company helps keep us small enough to be manageable.I believe that for the best communication and to avoid bureaucracy, you should ideally have no more than a hundred people working in one location.This is an extension of the fact that democracy seems to work best in small societies, where people have a sense of personal responsibility. In a small Sherpa or Inuit village there's no need to hire trash collectors or firemen; everyone takes care of community problems. And there's no need for police; evil has a hard time hiding from peer pressure.The most efficient size for a city is supposed to beabout 250,000 to 350,000 people, large enough to have all the culture and amenities of a city and still be governable-like Santa Barbara, Auckland, and Florence.
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Many people don't understand that how you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.You can solo climb Everest without using oxygen, or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carryyour loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in six thousand feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling and one pushing you.You just dial in "10,000 Feet" on your oxygen bottle,and up you go.
Typical high-powered,rich plastic surgeons and CEOs who attempt to climb Everest this way are so fixated on the target, the summit, that they compromise on the process. The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.
Just as doing risk sports will create stresses that lead to a bettering of one's self, so should a company constantly stress itself in order to grow. Our company has always done its best work whenever we've had a crisis. I've never been so proud of our employees as in 1994, when the entire company was mobilized to change over from using traditional cotton to organically grown by 1996.It was a crisis that led to writing down our philosophies.When there is no crisis, the wise leader or CEO will invent one. Not by crying wolf but by challenging the employees with change.
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