Are you the light or the bulb?

Joseph Campbell once asked: " Are you the light or the bulb?" And in this time of economic uncertainty, rapidly changing priorities, and increasing customer expectations it is easy to get focused on the wrong stuff in business. Research shows in the periods of tumultuous change instead of moving through change, we actually put ourselves on hold until we get some certainty. Instead of focusing on our energy to move through the change, we tend to focus on structure, organization. The bulb vs the light.

The problem with this is simple: if we are on hold while the world changes we run the risk of rustout. Now is the time to invest in yourself, build some new skills, sharpen the saw, build new relationships, strengthen and foster you best relationships, take folks off your neXus who are not contributors and put new folks on your neXus.

So what things are you doing not to rust out and focus on the light instead of the bulb?