What if you knew how your taxes were spent, would you pay more?
What's the likelihood you'd pay more?
What's the likelihood you wouldn't try to pay less?
I'm not in government, but it seems that operationally-speaking, it makes sense for the money to go into one pot and then be distributed as needed. After all, is it efficient to let the citizenry decide where the money goes?
This isn't a post about government, taxes, or management.
This is a post about efficiency.
The most efficient model produces consistent results.
Consistently people pay, or they don't.
It's not perfect, but it works.
If we were looking at a stock portfolio, we'd call this the "efficient frontier."
Well, my point is that we should drop this all together!
Consider the illogical.
Consider the inefficient.
If you're looking to spread an idea, create a business, book a gig, or do anything worth believing you have two choices:
The efficient frontier - where risk and reward are maximized most efficiently, or the way it's conventionally done; or
Through magic - where the goal is to delight, to experiment, or to break convention.
I'm an advocate for spending at least 20% of your time considering on the latter. Why?
Because when we consider the illogical, we look at that which no one else does.
And, if no one is doing it, we've created immediate differentiation.
Coming alive, doing the work that matters, or being more of who you're meant to be doesn't need to be efficient.
If it needed to be, we'd all be the same.
Where's the fun in that?
