What’s Your Role?


In business and life, you have four roles to choose from:

1. The Destroyer. His every effort and thought is aimed at turning 1 into 0. Whatever he touches crumbles to dust.

2. The Guardian. His job is to protect a unit of value, ensuring that the 1 exists in the past, present, and future, no matter what.

3. The Manager. He wants, knows how, and must turn 1 into 10 or even 1M. Someone entrusts him with value, expecting him to manage and multiply it.

4. The Creator. Without asking for anything or having anything, he makes 1 out of 0. In his presence, a dead-end problem reveals a Wow-solution on its own.

Each of these roles is essential in the business process. There is a time for each: to guard and to stimulate, to plant and to crash.

However, the complexity of these functions varies greatly.
Anyone can break, trample, or cancel anything. After all, the first thing any new organism learns is to take, not to give. Entropy helps, too, relentlessly turning everything to chaos.

Keeping things safe is harder. Lose focus for even a second, and everything can be lost without a chance to recover.

Not everyone can multiply what exists because it requires hard, honest work—day in, day out. A rich harvest is the result of methodical effort over many years or even decades.

The most difficult role is creating Something out of Nothing. You can’t be taught this—it’s about unlocking a dormant ability within yourself. But this path is unpredictable and thorny.

Creators are always in short supply. Treasure them in others and in yourself.

Sincerely yours,

-Alexander

P.S. Do you and your business need a boost? Then the Catalyst Session is designed specifically for you.


Какая ваша роль?

В бизнесе и жизни у вас есть четыре роли на выбор:

1. Разрушитель. Все его усилия и помыслы направлены на то, чтобы превратить 1 в 0. Чего бы он не коснулся, всё обращается в тлен.

2. Охранник. Его функция — защитить единицу ценности, чтобы в прошлом, настоящем и будущем 1 существовала вопреки всему.

3. Менеджер. Он хочет, умеет и должен превратить 1 в 10 или 1M. Некто доверяет ему ценность, чтобы он ею управлял и приумножал.

4. Творец. Ничего не прося и ничего не имея, он создаёт 1 из 0. В его присутствии тупиковая проблема подсказывает Wow-решение сама.

Каждая из этих ролей по-своему важна в бизнес-процессе. Всему свое время: караулить и стимулировать, сеять и уничтожать.

Однако сложность исполнения этих функций несоизмерима.

Любой человек может сломать, вытоптать и отменить что-угодно. Ведь первое, что умеет новый организм — это брать, а не давать. Также помогает энтропия, неумолимо стирающая в пыль всё.

Обеспечивать безопасность труднее, ибо достаточно на секунду ослабить внимание, чтобы потерять все без шанса восстановить.

Умножать имеющееся могут не все, потому что нужно честно пахать не раз и не два, а каждый день. Богатый урожай — это результат методичных усилий в течение многих лет.

Наиболее сложна функция создания Нечто из Ничто. Ей невозможно научить — только раскрыть в себе дремлющую способность. Но путь этот непредсказуем и тернист.

Творцов всегда не хватает. Цените их в других и в себе.

Искренне ваш,

-Александр

P.S. Вам и вашему бизнесу нужен импульс? Тогда сессия ”Катализатор” создана специально для вас.


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Typos are unavoidable — I wrote this letter today. In my pursuit of speed and authenticity, I chose not to use a content editor or proofreader. However, if you are an entrepreneur, what matters to you is not the form, but the function.

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