I have no plans because they limit me. What is the truth?
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Sheryl Sandberg, COO From Facebook, says "The reason I
do not have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's
options"
Are not plans really good for executives? Sheryl Kara
Sandberg (born August 28, 1969) is an American executive, activist, and author
of technology. She is director of operations for Facebook and founder of the
Leanin.org Foundation. In June 2012, she was inducted into the Facebook Board
of Directors. Prior to joining Facebook as COO, Sandberg was Vice President of
Global Internet Sales and Operations for Google and participated in the launch
of Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org. Earlier, she was Chief of Staff of
US Secretary of the Treasury, Lawrence Summers.
In 2012, she was named by Time magazine as one of the 100
most influential people in the world. Since June 2015, Sandberg has valued more
than $ 1 billion, for its actions on Facebook and other companies.
Forbes ranks her in number 7 of the most powerful women
(2016), number 14 among the women who formed itself, in America, and the 470th
place among America's millionaires. Undoubtedly, Sheryl Sandberg knows what
she's talking about and why she says something.
Opportunities are
only exploited by the prepared minds (Louis Pasteur)
Does Sheryl really disqualify and dismiss plans as guides to
action? Not really, only she has practiced and lived before the process of
planning and action, which already has it built into her mind so deeply that it
seems to be a more routine thinking. She has achieved the insight of planning, feels and understands and
updates according to the circumstances.
Imagine a spreadsheet in Excel or another program in which
you want to perform a sensitivity analysis. To know the changes in the NPV
according to the discount rate, only change the cell value where the rate is,
the rest is not modified at all. The new results are achieved in seconds, the
construction of the model may have taken many hours.
The initial phrase suggests that the person who acts like this
is a CREATIVITY VOLCANO, which captures in every second the signs, signals,
indicators, data that suggest something. The POWERFUL NEURONAL NET takes action
and finds relationships, links, new solutions, sees new products, innovative
services, unexpected answers to problems. And all instantly. In this sense, it
is when THE PLANS ARE "LIMITED AND UNNECESSARY" (think in quotation
marks). Ordinary people need a guide (something like a guard rail to stay out
of the way), a tangible plan.
What is Sandberg's secret? Work, accumulated experience, learning,
insight. Simple, right?
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