Finding Balance Within the Chaos

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Joseph Jaffe

Author, Z.E.R.O.

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PART 2: MY DISRUPTIVE CHALLENGE

Change Itself. “As I grow older, I see myself balking at change and realizing that I have become that which I once despised. I’m just like everyone else. I love my habits and my way of life.



“But each of us must change. You must embrace, you must force yourself out of that comfort zone. Intel CEO Andy Grove famously fired himself, and had his CFO re-hire him — so he come back without baggage, without all the kind of pretense that slows us down.



“I continue to struggle with the fact that change always takes longer than we think. It appears like it happens overnight, but it doesn’t. Even though some changes can be incredibly disruptive, they are the product of a lot of little tiny increments — which eventually reach a tipping point. It’s about becoming comfortable in that chaos.



“One thing I have learned throughout my career is that any form of extreme is bad. Many see disruptors and innovators and creators are extreme in and of themselves. But I don’t think that’s accurate. For example, 50% of me is extreme left brain. And 50% of me is extreme right brain. But put them together and I’m somewhere in the middle, where there’s balance and equilibrium.”



Applying that to disruptive change: “We need to take the best of the old and combine it with the best of the new. And we need to throw out the worst of the old and throw out the worst of the new. A lot of new stuff is absolute crap.



“What it all comes down to is finding your place and your space in this vortex of chaos and change. The answer isn’t to move quicker or slower. It is to move extremely quickly and extremely slowly and figure out the balance between the two.”  

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Finding your place and your space in this vortex. That’s it! That’s the challenge for each of us. And once we find our place, how we keep throwing out the stupid stuff and find balance between extremes.



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