Fujiko Suda: Worklife

True story inspires

Sep 08, 2003 23:06 pm / Add a comment

Just fin­ished read­ing Pat Riley’s The Win­ner Within: A Life Plan for Team Play­ers. I decided to read this book, because as I inter­acted with So-san over the blog, I was intreagued with Pat Riley, the NBA’s win­ningest coach ever. The book is fan­tas­tic! His story is about coach­ing, change, life of organic growth and decay, work, mas­tery. I think his book is closer to busi­ness sit­u­a­tion more than other such books I have read, because it is story of sus­tain­abil­ity in win­ning. In busi­ness, win­ning means stay­ing prof­itable in healthy way. It seems that life cycle of win­ning team, inno­cent climb, dis­ease of me, core covenant, thun­der­bolts, choke, break­throughs, com­pla­cency, mas­tery, ante­ing up, core cracks, move on are the same between bas­ket­ball or business.

What rare treat it is to be able to learn about the entire process in seques­nce, with emo­tional sto­ries, along with facts of results! When­ever I read about real sto­ries about suc­cess, which is always about serendip­ity and hard work, along with close calls where it was sim­ply incred­i­ble that the whole thing did not fall apart, I feel exhil­a­rated. At the same time, I become more weary of sto­ries told by onlook­ers, by con­sul­tants who only takes part in a blip of the team or company’s his­tory. One sim­ply can not pre­dict what hap­pens in the long run as result of efforts made in a short period of time.

I’ve thought of The Art of Pos­si­bil­i­ties by suc­cess­ful con­duc­tor of the Boston Phil­har­mon­ics, Ben­jamine Zan­der, Mas­tery by George Leonard, Life Work by Don­ald Hall. I’ve thought of numer­ous auto­bi­ogra­phies that illus­trated the road to mas­tery through work. Those Holy­wood movies. They are not real­is­tic in the way that suc­cess is shown with­out over­whelm­ing time and effort put into work, but they are real­is­tic in the way that win­ning cru­cial bat­tle comes at the eleventh hour like they do at Star Wars movies.

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