Why Do Entrepreneurs Annoy People?

A friend from Sony recently told me how many ex-Sony executives had gone to work for Tadashi Yanai, and then left. Yanai is the Japanese guy who created UNIGLO, one of the fastest growing mainstream fashion stores in the world today.

His constant changes drive them nuts.

Because he keeps changing his mind. He starts a project, then switches mid-stream to something else - meanwhile his executives have just spent a huge amount of time on the project he just gutted. Now they find he wants them working on something else.

He's a man after my own heart.

This is the reality of creating, innovating and ultimately sustaining a business. It is true on the same level as our everyday behaviour. A successful marriage will continue to sparkle in its own way. We are habitual machines, and this is mostly a good thing. However, we love our habits more than we love to change.

Change happens when the pain of here, is more than the pain of going there.

Status quo is the death of change. Sticking to the same idea, year after year, is how you - or your business - starts to go into creative decline. This may be fine - things last a long time after the creativity finishes.

But Nature is unkind to sameness.

For example, every actor knows that - the longer the season - the harder it is to sustain your quality of performance. Alec Guinness would not accept a theatrical contract for longer than 3 months. After that, the rot set in, and he would have nothing to do with it.

Alexander was quoted as saying to a student:

"You all want to change, and stay the same while you do it."

Trouble is, real change is a disrupter, and most people don't like it. However, if you're stuck in a job you don't like, a life you can't enjoy, a relationship that's gone sour, or a teaching practise that is stagnating - it's time to disrupt.

I am not sure how you handle the relationship thing (date again?) but I do know how to deal with the stagnating practise.

Disrupt. How? That's easy.

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