Paradigm shifts — Word

Based in Chicago, Omerisms is a blog by Omer Abdullah. His posts explore Ideas, perspectives and points of view across business, sales, marketing, life and (sometimes) football (the real kind).

All tagged Paradigm shifts

May 18

May 18 The Point Of (And Problem With) Accelerants

Aspirations, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Life, Management Consulting, Retail, Strategy

There's a trend line that we all live through in any endeavor we’re a part of. That trend line can be positive or negative but it’s a constant - there’s no question that there is no such thing as a ‘permanent’ status quo, that things will inevitably progress in some direction to a redefined (temporary) equilibrium.

Most of the time that trend line is drawn out over some material period of time. If we are on the ascent, that ascent can continue for years, driven by a mix of factors both internally driven and externally influenced.

Feb 18

Feb 18 Changing Our Paradigms

Omer Abdullah

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Personal Codes, Leadership, Aspirations, Life

Before we can make the leap from doing ‘what we’re told’ to ‘doing what we want’, we have to accept four ideas. That:

What we’re doing isn’t aligned with what we want to do
We don’t have to do what we’re doing
We can do something else
We should go do whatever that ‘something else’ is