Bumper Sticker Culture

Zoinks! Jon at Business Evolutionist is dogging my flabby keyboardature and general tendency to overpopulate some posts with nouns, gerunds, participles and other grammar thingies. Yeah, exactly, like that last sentence.

To wit:

I've been joking back and forth with Fouroboros ... that I'm going to start a new business by offering the cliff notes version of his posts... so, with that in mind, and his permission... here is the first installment:

Courage needs a companion...[*]

*Insert a whole bunch of stuff here about a TV spot on Courage, then some on exploring, and rollercoasters, then sound waves, cheap radios, Norah Jones chewing rocks, football penalties, rhythm, Mount Everest, Garbage, Schoolmarms, more Rhythm, Cinderella's favorite rodent, breadcrumbs, California, DNA, a pendulum, soul crushing, business fads, business hopes, lonely hyperactive neurotic courage, dragons, leaders, followers, and courage's sidekick, conscience.

Phew. Back to Jon:

My shortened version:

• Business needs a purpose
• Purpose takes courage
• You don't get purpose or courage from a set of bullet points.

While I do agree, and appreciate Jon's gracious offer and bulletin, maybe he's being a tad stingy:

• Business needs people
• People want purpose
• Purpose needs courage
• Courage is driven by conscience
• Your organization has a shared conscience
• It's a feedback loop, go back to point #1

Hmm. Okay I suppose, but we could shorten the word count even more, perhaps capturing some of the kicky insouciance that was intended:

• People want growth
• Growth requires courage
• Courage is having balls
• Balls needs a Conscience
• Conscientious balls propagate legitimate growth

Yeah, that's better.

Oh. Should I point out that balls is a gender neutral gift? Nah, didn't think so.