The tree-puller
Looking at the situation, you see what you see, and whether you like it or not, whether you strive for objectivity or not, you also think…
We don’t necessarily get to choose our customers, especially if our focus is a boss or internal client. But we do get choose where we spend our discretionary energies: with the excited, rule breaking, risk taking, tearing up trees challenger … or … the miserable, only sees the negatives, risk averse, nothing changes around here except the date mud-stucker.
Maybe you have to serve both – ok, you absolutely have to serve both – but even the most time pressured of us get a little flexibility. (If you don’t get that, what are you doing here?)
Spend it on the tree-puller. Spend it with the engaged and interested. If you can’t find them in your immediate group, look a little further. Volunteer for crazy projects, for difficult assignments, for anything that gets you involved with the kind of people you want to be involved with.
Skippy strategy: Define and find your ideal customer.
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