Jim Swartz on Seizing Great Opportunity
Jim Swartz, Author of “Seeing David in the Stone”

Something every corporation should adopt is the ability to effectively train their people. Once employees are trained, corporations can act as consultants to help individual employees find opportunities and take them to the next step.

When you systematically search, find, and mobilize individuals to execute opportunities, you build a culture of eagerness to find those opportunities. Michelangelo was able to look at a damaged stone of David – the opportunity – envision something that nobody could see, and make something of it. If an organization is able to find everyone who is in their damaged form, they can teach each person to find great opportunities.

People don’t just trip and fall onto a great opportunity; there is more of a science and art to the process:

Passion – find the area of high passion, something you have talent in Expertise – develop further your expertise in those passion areas Rewards – find the area where you are going to receive the kind of rewards you want With the aforementioned, an individual can move to the high opportunity zone, which is where most opportunities exist. From the high opportunity zone, you can then “learn how to learn expertise.”