Make Your Best Work Obsolete
You solved a big problem in a meaningful way; you made a big improvement in something important; you brought new thinking to an old paradigm; you created something from nothing. Unfortunately, the easy part is over. Your work created the new baseline, the new starting point, the new thing that must be made obsolete. So now on to the hard part: to obsolete your best work
You know best how to improve your work, but you must have the right mindset to obsolete it. Sure, take time to celebrate your success (Remember, you created something from nothing.), but as soon as you can, grow your celebration into confidence, confidence to dismantle the thing you created. From there, elevate your confidence into optimism, optimism for future success. (You earned the right to feel optimistic; your company knows your next adventure may not work, but, hey, no one else will even try some of the things you’ve already pulled off.) For you, consequences of failure are negligible; for you, optimism is right.
Now, go obsolete your best work, and feel good about it.
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Dr. Mike Shipulski (certfied TRIZ practioner) brings together the best of TRIZ, Axiomatic Design, Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (2006 DFMA Contributor of the Year), and lean to develop new products and technologies. His blog can be found at Shipulski On Design.
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It’s funny that I have been doing this for quite some time, and the words I was using don’t describe it as good as your expression of “Obsolete your work” This is going to be one of my motto from now on.
Fantastic post!
Cheers
Carlos