Plan B

In The Box Podcast

Episode 6: Relationship Marketing, Institutions & Systems, Keeping Memories And More – Podcast

Garth Beyer

On this episode of In The Box Podcast, we shared views on memorabilia, discussed if it’s true you need to know someone at a company to get a job there, talked about having a plan B, ranted about academic writing, fashion standards, and institutionalization. Enjoy.

Episode 6: Relationship Marketing, Institutions & Systems, Keeping Memories And More

Memorabilia – Is there a significant point to retaining memories through objects and other memorabilia?

Relationship Marketing – The only way to get a decent job is to know someone who works there. True? False?

No plan B – Are people who resort to Plan B, changing their destination, weak?

Academia – Why do a lot of academics write in a way that is difficult to grasp if you are not a scholar in their field?

Fashion – Can you wear blue with black?

System vs. Individual – Does blaming the system/institution too easily excuse the actions of people within a system/institution?

 

Stay Positive & What’s Something You’ve Saved And Why?

A Different Kind Of Plan B

Garth Beyer

Off The Path Plan B

Working on every project like you would a jigsaw puzzle is essential if you want it to be a success. Lean the box against the wall and start putting all the pieces together, regularly looking at what the final product is supposed to be. But work projects (and life!) aren’t that simple.

You can plan everything out. You can have the perfect strategy. You can create a system that will get you from start to finish. But – and this is a big but because it’s always existent – things won’t go as planned, as strategized, as systemized.

Tactics will change. People will let you down. You will take an unexpected and uncontrolled turn toward the unknown.

Knowing your plan and visualizing the final puzzle, final product, final campaign has it’s value, but knowing what you will do when the plan doesn’t go as planned – that’s what proves a person is in it for the long run versus only if things go the way they planned.

 

Stay Positive & Yes, You Can Plan For Your Plan Not To Work

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Plan B, C, D, E, F, …

Garth Beyer

The only time you need a backup plan is when you know that you have a breaking point in Plan A that will make you stop working for it.

The moment you realize that you need a backup plan, you may want to reconsider even having plan A. If it’s not worth the fight, it’s not worth it at all.

 

Stay Positive & If There Is A Will, There Is A Way. Always.

Garth E. Beyer