we were interviewinng a woman today at the office and something on her resume caught my eye. it was simply the statement that she wanted to have a positive impact on the world. sounds awfully fimilar to me because i probably wrote something along those lines in one of the many websites that i have tinkered with. so, i begin to think to myself, when did i forget about this notion that i am doing THIS to benefit others in this world? no, i haven’t forgotten about it by any stretch but considering the contexts by which i remind myself of this, it would seem better leveraged in a less confined mindshare. a friend once asked me why i don’t tell my employees some of my deeper movivatation behind my drive and his arguement was that it may help the company on numerous levels. i have thought about it and i must say that’s where the catch 22 comes into play. to clearly state your intentions and actually live up to them is my main point of contention. the tricky ego likes to have the cake and eat it too by not stating (thus not claiming responsiblity) it but at the same time claim that it has always been there when intentions are actually realized. but meanwhile, years go by and i wonder, surely, there has to be a better way.
