Powazek on JPG
Derek Powazek tells The Real Story of JPG Magazine. He has some helpful words of wisdom:
Decisions aren’t decisions if you have to keep making them. Set on the course and stick to it. If you keep talking about things that have already been decided, nothing will ever get done.
and…
Never let anyone tell you what you want. When someone says, “You don’t want that,” what they really mean is, “I don’t want you to have that.”
It literally got my adrenalin pumping to read how Derek wrestled with the tension small businesses create — there are people who are honest and kind, but sharing a business with another person who is neither of those things creates a crisis. That is, in a purely interpersonal relationship you can forgive and forget, but in a business you can be forced out, wrongly accused, and legally outmaneuvered until all you’re left with is the option to forget the business you started. It’s hard to find people to trust, doubly hard when you share a business with them.
Comments
Mykala +1
This is fantastic advice for life. Period. Especially this: “Never let anyone tell you what you want. When someone says, “You don’t want that,” what they really mean is, ‘I don’t want you to have that.’”
You can’t spend your life trying to make decisions that satisfy others— you will never succeed.