In chapter 5, the author brings up "The Importance of Purpose". This is something I think we could all learn more about. We spend so much of our time wandering the internet, playing games, and have no clue what the purpose of it is. We could be spending this time doing something productive, but we are instead mindlessly wandering and searching for unknowns. People need to have a purpose, and need to have a cause to be able to get things done. A good way to put it is how the author did on page 67, "Without a purpose that people find compelling and that provides specific organizational benefits, business value will be left to chance and, worse, the community may even create unnecessary risk for the organization". This shows us what effect having a purpose could cause not only for us, but for the organizations we work for, or people around us.
Chapter 6 identifies that we should create purpose roadmaps. They provide a context for who participates, what motivates those people, how they interact, and how these purposes could effect later decisions. Doing this would get people thinking harder about what they wanted to do and the goals they may set moving forward.
I really like your insights and points on Chapter 5. I've been trying to spend some time "unplugged" from technology, even if it's just picking up a book to read for enjoyment.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you and the author. Last summer I lived with my sister and her house is in a dead zone. I didn't have internet, cable TV, and I was lucky if I even had service on my phone. It was shocking how much more productive I was over those three months than I was in the preceding nine was I was on campus.
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