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Big Dreams Require Big Thinkers

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35 pointssethkravitz10 comments

Wow. That reminds me of A Message to Garcia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Message_to_Garcia and http://www.birdsnest.com/garcia.htm

>To his credit, Mark chose to think big. It’s no surprise that he is now one of the Senior Executives of Red Box where he currently serves as SVP of Strategy, Innovation & New Business. A perfect gig for someone who thinks big.

With all respect, it was a silly article. Guy decides to say 'Okay' to a higher-ranking officer once in his career (who used to shout or cry like a goddamn child whenever others didn't listen to him), and you magically psycho-analyzed (it's not the word I want to use, but I'm not English and can't think of anything better) him and decided that he's a good fit for his new position at Red Box company (I have no clue whatever the hell that company does). He might be the perfect guy for the job, but how did you conclude that from this short scene?

I just hate when I see posts like this that try to capsulate a human being (that has lived 50+ years, or 1,650,000,000+ seconds) into just one or two brief instances and/or key decisions in their lives.

People are more than the sum of the few key decisions they make (and this wasn't even a key decision).

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take away from this story. Perhaps someone can enlighten me?

It just doesn't seem any different from a host of corporate conferences I've help produce. The fact that they got Herbie Hancock shows that this wasn't balls instead of budget.

Even Micheal Jackson likes macs? Working at a popular, high profile tech firm can help when making cold calls?

The post title is about big dreams. Jobs could have thought "Michael Jackson would be great to have but he's too big of a star and would never agree, so let's settle for Herbie Hancock instead". The outcome would have been exactly the same. Instead, Jobs wanted it to happen, and Mark didn't know any better so he tried to make it happen. And guess what... it would have happened, if only for the budget mismatch.

That in and of itself would be a nice historical story and no takeaway is required. However, if you insist on there being a takeaway, then try this one on for size: don't put artificial limits on what you think is possible. Move forward and make it happen as your assumptions about what is possible and what isn't are probably wrong.

Except that's not dreaming so big, IMHO. And experience.

I think this story is about not giving up on hard/impossible tasks. Most people would not have even tried to attempt to contact Michael Jackson because to them it would be an "impossible" task. Just like most people will tell you why a new business or product idea should not be made.

You can take away that Michael Jackson's record company is very efficient at directing calls, reaching Michael in 5 minutes. And, Michael Jackson negotiates his own payment for appearances, apparently.

The punchline of the article was pretty funny.

The title of this submission, however, is pretty damn misleading.

Only big thinkers can realize big dreams. And only pretentious writers can write pretentious copy.

And big pockets too, it seems!

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