TL;DR Scaling a truly great company demands alignment across your inner and outer worlds; when these are out of alignment you and your business get stuck. Coaching at its best helps this happen.
It's strange how your approach, which is somewhat obvious once articulated, is not the common one. People do tend to lean very hard into the 'inside harmony' approach or the 'crush the competition' approach. Which would make me think that the first are scared of contact and friction in a way, and the second are scared of the emptiness (western bad version) or other dark parts inside.
I don't like that conclusion, as its quite cynical, reading people as having this strange weakness and aversion to a balance that's obviously best.
What's cynical about that conclusion? It would just suggest that most people tend to lean into one end of a polarity (that they're less afraid of). Which is basically true.
I think the cynical aspect is that it ascribes fear and aversion as a motivation and not a recognition of some good. Although I suppose it makes sense to say its some sort of combination where one leans into the good that has least friction. and that sounds less cynical than what I was originally thinking.
Beautifully articulated Jake.
It's strange how your approach, which is somewhat obvious once articulated, is not the common one. People do tend to lean very hard into the 'inside harmony' approach or the 'crush the competition' approach. Which would make me think that the first are scared of contact and friction in a way, and the second are scared of the emptiness (western bad version) or other dark parts inside.
I don't like that conclusion, as its quite cynical, reading people as having this strange weakness and aversion to a balance that's obviously best.
Would you articulate it differently?
What's cynical about that conclusion? It would just suggest that most people tend to lean into one end of a polarity (that they're less afraid of). Which is basically true.
I think the cynical aspect is that it ascribes fear and aversion as a motivation and not a recognition of some good. Although I suppose it makes sense to say its some sort of combination where one leans into the good that has least friction. and that sounds less cynical than what I was originally thinking.