Evaluating Ideas and Oranges

More often than not, I am faced with personalities that over simplify solutions, discount details and compare oranges to oranges at the drop of a hat. This generally results in a surface level understanding of problems and and the implementation of an equally shallow solution.

I was recently told that “IDEAS were a commodity in the information age” to which I quipped “but implementations aren’t.”

I then proceeded to expunge my humble theory on comparison:“An orange circle does not an orange make”.

From far away they both look like orange circles but come closer and you will find that the orange is infinitely more interesting.
It, like life, has texture and depth and other “qualities” that make it refreshingly unique and undeniably complex. The orange circle on the other hand, is flat and 2 dimensional.

No this is not about fruit and orange cardboard circles…
What this is about is looking closer, going beyond the obvious face value because nothing is as simple as it seems while deciphering “what will work” (both in business and in life). And just because you have a similar products or services and comparable resources  doesn’t guarantee your success.

Let me leave you with one simple thought “There are no original ideas …only good implementations of them.”…
..and good implementations come from focusing on the details that differentiate the orange from the orange circle.So the next time you see an orange circle looming in the distance look closer it may just be the difference between success and failure.

~ by koc1978 on July 20, 2007.