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Maximize purpose

Umair Haque at Harvard Business on Obama’s lessons for innovators:

Change the game? That’s 20th century thinking at its finest – and narrowest. The 21st century is about changing the world. What does “yes we can” really mean? Obama’s goal wasn’t simply to win an election, garner votes, or run a great campaign. It was larger and more urgent: to change the world.

Bigness of purpose is what separates 20th century and 21st century organizations: yesterday, we built huge corporations to do tiny, incremental things – tomorrow, we must build small organizations that can do tremendously massive things.

And to do that, you must strive to change the world radically for the better – and always believe that yes, you can. You must maximize, stretch, and utterly explode your sense of purpose.

I’d like to think I’ve always believed this. Every once in a while I need a small reminder to continue with this idea in mind. What good is something if there’s no purpose behind your chase? Where will passion come from?

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  • jerryclatham28

    Since there are less buttons and, perhaps to balance the game, Ryu can’t control the speed of his fireballs. He also can’t control the strength of his anti-air Shoryuken. You can execute the move by holding down + 2, but you’re stuck with the medium powered Shoryuken. Beginners have limited reach with the Shoryuken since only the fierce Shoryuken goes all the way up the screen. The medium one goes up less than half the screen. In exchange for this beginner players can throw rapid Shoryukens and land straight into hurricane kicks. This “strategy” is http://www.chase.com ridiculous, but you can actually travel the screen by alternating between shoryukens and hurricane kicks in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. Again, this probably won’t level the playing field for seasoned Street Fighters, but it can throw the CPU into a corner pretty quickly.