So many great comments, but they're going to have to wait. Tomorrow I go in for some minor surgery (belly button hernia) and if I don't finish the main part of my tale today, tomorrow Stevieo will probably show up at my house, duct tape my belly button, and make me sit down in front of my machine. So, rather than that, I'm gonna finish up the tale today and then let you guys comment. I'll start answering stuff again sometime through the weekend.
Where were we? Oh yeah, my job discription ....
I stare at the blank piece of paper, and then look back at the coach, "What do you mean dream job?"
"It simple, what do you do best? You should be doing what you do best."
I look back at the paper for a second, and then write, "Strategic Product Line Development"
I'm a gadget geek to the core of my being. I love widgets and gizmos and even know the difference the two. (Sorry, trade secret.) The technological world out there is incredibly complex and fast moving, HeadRoom is a small company, and our ability to actually do anything meaningful out the is VERY minimal and tricky. We have to find a series of somewhat connected holes within our mission that other people aren't filling.
I'd be spilling too many uncooked beans to talk about this in too much depth, but as an example, some of you have mentioned a DAP. That would be a horrible error for us to pursue. It would put us in competition with Apple and Microsoft, and goodness knows who all else. We're much better off finding a way to embrace those devices and make then sound as good as if we built them without having to invest in a cube farm of programmers to try to do something half (or less) as well as the big boys.
No, it's critical that there's a very clear eye on the strategically sound and continually profitable way forward. An eye that knows how to see the little stepping stones to hop to and from. And that eye is I ... er, me.
Then I wrote down "Crazy Ukulele Player."
The coach looked at me and said, "What do you mean by that?"
Well, when you bring out people into public spaces, you have to send messages to them, but that's pretty tactical. There's also strategic messaging where you basically precondition and lead the people by playing things that cause people to think a certain way and become unprepared for what's next.
For instance .... a ukulele.
I'll fess up, this thread is just one long rant to make this transition as easy as possible without a lot of people grabbing their torches and pitchforks that we don't want to spend the next year hiding from. But it's also a simple view of the truth. And it's also me just talking to my imaginary friends.
The point, I guess, is that I'm good at yelling at people and playing desultory tunes about what we're doing.
The coach nodded, "What else?"
I sat for a long time. Almost anything else I could think of needed to be part of the system and more closely under the authority of the new boss.
I didn't say anything for a minute or two as I thought. Then the coach said, "What's yours? What do you need to do that which you do best?"
"The BAND!" I said.
"The band? What?"
I told the coach that if I'm gonna do a lot of messaging and getting our painful shirts in front of writers and enthusiasts that I've got to have the band. So if anyone wants to join me on the closest street corner for a jam session, I'm good to go.
He nodded.
, could you make one?
