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'Simple Questions' That Help You Find 'My Path'

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'Simple questions' that help you find 'my path'  



1. What is our business?
2. Where do we stand right now?
3. What goal do we want to reach in the next 3 to 5 years?
4. What goal do we want to reach in 10 years?
5. What are our strengths and weaknesses? (p. 34)

From John Adair, trans. Park Hyeyoung, "A Team Does Not Run Alone
— How to Be a Creative Leader and a Creative Team Member" (Cheongrim Publishing)

"The things you must do in war are very simple. But under the conditions of war, even simple things are very difficult to do properly."
So says Carl von Clausewitz, author of "On War."
 
It helps to take what Clausewitz said back in the 1800s and swap out "war" for "daily life." Our business and our life may be, in their own way, similar to a war. Whether we handle the "simple things" properly determines success or failure.
 
"What is our business?" "Where do we stand right now?"... The author says we need to answer the questions listed above. Simple but fundamental questions — questions that usually get pushed aside into some corner by smaller tasks. If you can throw these questions at yourself and find the right answers, you can find "my path" in business and in life.




 Yeh Byung-il's Economic Notes - Twitter: @yehbyungil / Facebook: www.facebook.com/yehbyungil

This English version was translated by Claude.

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Pleasant Charles — UI/UX researcher at AIT. Keeping notes on design, planning, and slow days here since 2010.

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