Doing Something Poorly – in Volume
Gruber was poking fun at the MoviePass folks not being able to buy tickets for it's users, and brought up this fantastic faux commercial that aired on Saturday Night Live years ago, and it just made me laugh. It's the "Volume" at the end that really got me - still does.
One problem with changing an organization is that the Old Guard will do just that - Guard the old ways, and make it increasingly more difficult to make the changes that are part of the overall transformation of the organization. Change isn't easy, change can be annoying, horrible, scary, and painful. But an organization is similar to a living thing, in that it has to adapt (change) with the times, or it's going to face extinction.
This commercial is all about failure on an epic scale. It's something we've all seen in comics, stories, movies, and most of us - real life. It can be hard to see what you are doing when you are doing it - because the motivations are often set long before it comes around to execution. But it's there. If you can step back for just a second to take a look.