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Monday, December 06, 2010

Living Like The Future Is Now

In The E-Myth Revisited, Michael Gerber relates a story he had heard about what Tom Watson, the founder of IBM, had said concerning the success of IBM. It is said that Tom answered his questioner as follows:

IBM is what it is today for three reasons. The first reason is that, at the beginning, I had a very clear picture of what the company would look like when it was finally done. I had a model in my mind of what it would look like when the dream—my vision—was in place.
     The second reason was that once I had that picture, I then asked myself how a company, which looked like that, would have to act. I then created a picture of how IBM would act when it was finally done.
     The third reason IBM has been so successful was that once I had a picture of how IBM would look when the dream was in place and how such a company would have to act, I then realized that, unless we began to act that was from the very beginning, we would never get there.
     In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one.
     From the very outset, IBM was fashioned after the template of my vision. And each and every day we attempted to model the company after that template. At the end of each day, we asked ourselves how well we did, discovered the disparity between where we were and where we had committed ourselves to be, and, at the start of the following day, set out to make up for the difference.
     Every day at IBM was a day devoted to business development, not doing business. We didn’t do business at IBM; we built one.
(emphasis mine)
From The E-Myth Revisited, pages 69-70, 1995


CHRIST IN US, THE HOPE OF GLORY. "God willed to make known among the nations the riches of the glory of this mystery which has been hidden from ages and generations but now has been revealed to his saints. It is Christ in you the hope of glory" (Col 1:26-27).

The IBM vision of Tom Watson is a good illustration of this 
passage. If we live today as if we really are seated in Christ 
what would our everyday lives look like? It just might be that 
living like we were already mature would cause us to mature 
more quickly. Imagine that you and I are the adopted sons 
and daughters of God Most High. Wait a minute, WE ARE 
ADOPTED SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD MOST HIGH!!!
Posted by Jim Bentley at Monday, December 06, 2010

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