On being brave

Hi everyone,

Surprise! It’s me (Jade) again, back for a second week in a row to expand on our Blue Oceans Strategy theme. If you’re coming in fresh and wondering what Blue Oceans is, Rachel explains it in our opener to this theme.

When I first learned about this business strategy, a few things stuck out to me. One of them was the delicate dance between creatively engineering higher perspectives around what it is we want to put out into the world and actually executing all that bright thinking. Now, depending on your role or niche, you may not actually be the executor of your own ideas, but you certainly are the executor of sharing them, so that it can move in whatever direction it needs to. 

So, what I’d love to dive into today is the nuance of speaking up. What it looks like to be brave even in the face of people we don’t know very well or people we’re still learning to trust and how we can build confidence around being the “first” to suggest a new approach or be kindly vocal if something’s just not working, because the success of the Blue Oceans Concept doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

P.s. This is my final solo edition of Nice Work. I’m doing a brave thing of my own, moving to a new country and making A LOT of space to hone in on my most aligned, capital 
W - Work, and while I’m not entirely sure what that Work will manifest as, it feels right to close down what I can to make space to find out. And how full circle to end on the sentiment of my first-ever edition of Nice Work, where I made the case that doing less is actually doing more. You can read that one here. The Nice Work Newsletter, however, will continue, offering valuable insight from Rachel and perhaps a few guest writers! Stay tuned.