Smart people who lack action are like a car with an engine loaded with horse power but lacking wheels.
Smart people without action give the sense that things are pointed in the right direction and yet there is rarely movement in that direction.
Smart people who are not action-oriented love to be perpetual fountains of thoughts and opinions, but ultimately just wear everyone around them out because of the exhaustion of processing all of their thoughts.
To be sure, smart people are valuable, and often essential, to growing and successful organizations.
The key is linking the smarts to action.
When a team member can think AND make those ideas begin to take shape, a system and organization begins to grow at an exponential rate.
By all means, train yourself and those around you to be thinkers...but simultaneously work to develop habits that link actions to those thoughts.
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