If Everest Was In Your Path, Would You Recognize It? Its An Insight That Saves Companies And Careers

Our companies and careers grow and take place as strings of events. As we progress, some of the things that we think are going to be difficult, turn out to be quite easy. And inevitably some projects that look easy turn out to be exceedingly difficult. Much of the discrepency between our assesment of a task and its actual difficulty comes from the geometry hidden within the tasks themselves. As a decision maker in business, it pays dividends to be able to recognize such patterns – to effectively predict outcomes before they happen. Just as mountain men in the wilderness depend on their ability to read the signs of their environment to survive, so too must the modern manager be intimately familiar with the signs of her environment. From my experience in hiking the Sierras in California, the correlation of climbing to business is very striking – in particular what I like to call the ‘Everest Structure’. It is critical for every manager and entrepreneur to explore what that means, and why it is so important. - Source      

If Everest Was In Your Path, Would You Recognize It? Its An Insight That Saves Companies And Careers