This quote came to mind while reading your article. I had to look it up to see who to credit it to. ""Every successful enterprise requires three men – a dreamer, a businessman, and a son-of-a-bitch!" This famous quip is frequently attributed to the Canadian author and humorist Peter McArthur." Of course, knowing your family, this would not be applicable. Not sure of your business partners.....
So, how would you attribute those roles to the Holy Trinity? Just asking...
But the quote distills it quite accurately! As I recall the classroom material (which was nearly 20 years ago - so please forgive any inaccuracy), the magic was in keeping decision groups small. The smallest viable group size was three, which allowed for the natural emergence of three critical roles: driver, skeptic, and recorder. One thing I found most interesting was that in ANY group of three, those respective roles emerge naturally AND situationally. So, if the role is to win the sale, the salesman drives; but if the role is to optimize delivery, the operational leader drives - and other roles fall similarly naturally - even within the same group of three. My theory is that it works especially well if the three involved actually understand and harvest the dynamic.
Most people who I categorize as brilliant accept it theoretically, but not practically. They commonly cite Jobs, Musk, and you name who else, as counter-evidence. Fair. But perhaps incomplete. For every marquee, there were some stagehands who put it up...
Regarding Holy Trinty, not sure that quote works so well. But we can discuss. Like the stage crew reference, working on the final product but behind the scenes
This quote came to mind while reading your article. I had to look it up to see who to credit it to. ""Every successful enterprise requires three men – a dreamer, a businessman, and a son-of-a-bitch!" This famous quip is frequently attributed to the Canadian author and humorist Peter McArthur." Of course, knowing your family, this would not be applicable. Not sure of your business partners.....
So, how would you attribute those roles to the Holy Trinity? Just asking...
But the quote distills it quite accurately! As I recall the classroom material (which was nearly 20 years ago - so please forgive any inaccuracy), the magic was in keeping decision groups small. The smallest viable group size was three, which allowed for the natural emergence of three critical roles: driver, skeptic, and recorder. One thing I found most interesting was that in ANY group of three, those respective roles emerge naturally AND situationally. So, if the role is to win the sale, the salesman drives; but if the role is to optimize delivery, the operational leader drives - and other roles fall similarly naturally - even within the same group of three. My theory is that it works especially well if the three involved actually understand and harvest the dynamic.
Most people who I categorize as brilliant accept it theoretically, but not practically. They commonly cite Jobs, Musk, and you name who else, as counter-evidence. Fair. But perhaps incomplete. For every marquee, there were some stagehands who put it up...
Regarding Holy Trinty, not sure that quote works so well. But we can discuss. Like the stage crew reference, working on the final product but behind the scenes