Some years ago I had a realization: There are people who play small and people who play big and I was a small game player. During my professional live I’ve worked hard on my skills, so it was not a skill problem. And I’ve always invested time in things that would pay off later, so it was no problem of urgent vs. important vs. significant. It was just that all the progress I made felt somewhat limited.
My thought process about big and small game started with a feeling. At the beginning there was no “concept”. But I started to continually reflect about whether the decisions that I were about to make where big or small game and then decided to go with the option that “felt” more like big game.
But of course after a lot of thinking, I’ve identified several key indicators to distinguish big game vs. small game thinking. Continue reading “Playing the Big Game”