Twitter is not Trivial

I’ll confess — For years, I regarded Twitter as a trivial exercise — couldn’t understand why I’d want to reduce my deep thoughts to tiny 140 character sound bites.  And when I joined Twitter, I could find some of those trivial tweets — many of them, in fact.

But I also found a pleasant surprise — lots of real content.  Some are just nuggets of wisdom, some are self-promotion well done.  And I’ve begun to write such myself.

This morning I sat on the boat from our island into town drafting seven such tweets.  Here they are:

• Wanted: Creative projects, where deep questions, grounded in design thinking and spirit rich vision can bring insight, clarity, and results.

• Real consultants listen more than they talk, have more questions than answers or solutions, cogitate, enjoy collaboration, bring value.

• “What are we trying to do here?” Amazing how seldom this question stays on the table.

• Listening is the key. Not talking. Not responding. Not correcting or interrupting. Listening is the key.

• I’ve rarely met a problem that I understood at first. Yes, I had insights, possible answers, but it was bigger than I understood or imagined.

• My key question in interviewing possible employees: What’s an interesting “mistake” that you made, and what did you learn from it?

• A team that always agrees — deprives itself of joyful and creative diversity.