5 Year Resume

Circling back to the Savannah Bananas…I listened to a podcast last week with their CEO (Jesse Cole). Here is the link – well worth the listen. 

 

5 things really stood out to me:

 

1. They have a waiting list of over 12,000 people to work for them. 
2. In their ten+ years of existence, they have only had five people leave on their own accord. (Talk about a retention rate!) 
3. Obsession is awesome. If you can find something you are obsessed with, so few people in the world get to have that. 
4. Whatever’s normal… do the exact opposite. No one goes home excited about normal. Normal gets normal results. There’s a lot of normal in the world, not a lot of extraordinary. 
5. The 5 Year Resume. Everyone who interviews with the Bananas has to write a resume for themselves on what they will accomplish in the next five years. They are looking for visionaries. 

 

I really hovered on the last one. Not everyone has the ability to cast vision. Yet, as leaders, one of our greatest callings is to be able to see what others don’t see…then, execute. Vision without action is simply daydreaming. If we want to be the best of the best, our charge must be to cast the vision- then enact an action plan to make it happen. 

 

The work we do is not easy. But it is gratifying…beyond measure. 

 

Be a visionary. The next generation depends on us. 

 

I am always in your corner. Win the Day- pja

 

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