This is an understandable sentiment. As jobs push people to be automatons and often offer little in the way of respect, it’s easy to quietly quit.
But perhaps, they’re not paying you enough to not care.
Spending your days, day after day, not caring is a tragedy.
They might not deserve your focus and effort, but you do.
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Tactics are tempting. We can lean into them, invest, build our skills and count on results.
Strategies are more elusive. And a mismatch between strategy and tactics leads to wasted effort.
In this 2 x 2 grid, you can see how easy it is to get stuck.
The worst outcome is a misguided strategy supported by poorly executed tactics. This is the muck… you’re not sure where you’re going, and you’re not going anywhere in particular.
The top left and bottom right are a bit better, tempting even, but ultimately non-productive.
If you are showing up with skill and effort and executing perfectly, all in support of a strategy that doesn’t make sense, you’ve wasted your effort.
And if your strategy is brilliant but the work you’re doing doesn’t deliver on it, the effort is just as wasted.
Perhaps your strategy is to be “familiar to strangers,” and you decide to use social media to get the word out and reach the masses. It’s possible your persistent and consistent efforts will lead to millions of views. But if the product or service you’re offering doesn’t lend itself to casual interactions and impulse purchases, your strategy won’t work, regardless of how well your team delivered on the tactics.
When the world changes, and it does, the tactics we depend on don’t always support the strategy we need.
There’s a difference between ‘rich’ and ‘richer’. And ‘fit’ and ‘fitter’.
The problem with a pre-amp that goes all the way to 11 isn’t that it’s louder. The problem is that very soon, the person who bought one of these will want one that goes to 12.
Living in the liminal space is unstable.
When we get hooked on what we get next instead of focusing on what actually matters in the now, we sign up for a crash.
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