“Culture eats strategy for lunch.”*¹

Imagine you’re about to launch a BIG project. But what exactly makes it so BIG?

Years ago, I heard a simple phrase that sounded clever at the time, but I didn’t grasp its real power until much later:

I used to have an aunt who would say, “It’s going to rain—I can feel it in my bones.” I always thought she was a little off—until the rain actually came.

I was sitting at the kitchen table, face-to-face with a man I cared about deeply. As a pastor, I had to confront something he was doing that wasn’t right. I wish I could say I handled it perfectly. I didn’t. I was young and inexperienced. But what happened next stunned me: he stood up and came across the table at me swinging.

I'm a self-taught expert, having learned from my many mistakes, and I'm a semi-professional in time management.  I can tell you about Full Focus, the Eisenhower Matrix, Getting Things Done, Pomodoro, time blocking, and more—all of that to say this.  There is no perfect method, and there is no magic bullet.  But I will share with you a few things that I know quickly.  

I wrote in an old blog post that Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that, until 1900, human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II, knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today, things are not as simple as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth. For example, knowledge of nanotechnology is doubling every two years, while clinical knowledge is doubling every 18 months. However, on average, human knowledge doubles every 13 months. According to IBM, the build-out of the “Internet of Things” will lead to the doubling of knowledge every 12 hours.” That was in 2017.  Source