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Go Ahead and Throw Out That Baby With the Bath Water
By Ron | August 23, 2008
When “The Secret” was at the height of popularity, you could walk around the company and see Vision Boards everywhere. $100,000 bills were tacked up in cubicles. The dreamers were dreaming. Now, most of the people are scrambling to pay their mortgages. The vision boards are gone and so are the dreams.
Pity. When the fad is over, people throw out the baby, the bath water and the bath tub. Not me.
I’ve been around awhile and I’ve seen these things come and go. I still have a vision board. I also have a mental storeroom full of stuff from every trend that has come down the path. I use these remnants from past programs and books all the time.
Many people are amazed at my insights. I don’t tell them that I just solved a complex communication problem using “transactional analysis” from the seventies or addressed a quality problem using techniques from a “Zero-Defects Program” from the dim dark past.
No, I keep the baby, the bathtub, but I recirculate the water and then I label it with the latest term that is in vogue. They think I’m hip.
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August 23rd, 2008 at 10:25 am
The way ideas are packaged come and go, but good old hard work and solid thinking never go out of vogue. I like TA a lot and invoke it now, sans the label, mostly the Adult-Child interaction and “scripting.” Same with TQM. Really cool to keep the good ideas and “recirculate the water.”