Power

I'm rereading Tom Peter's 'Talent'. In it, he talks about the power you have, even as a very small cog in a big machine to grab hold of cool ideas and projects and make a difference. He says 'Can you imagine Martin Luther King, Jr., saying "Civil Rights is Cool, but I don't have the power"?'. He encourages action, volunteering and experimentation, and he exhorts you to think of every task as one with the potential to be something great.

He says that you are not powerless, and I agree. No matter who you are are, or where you are, no-one can tell you what to think about. No one can stop you experimenting on a Saturday afternoon when it's not office hours. No one can stop you reading, or imagining.

You might spend years in the bowels of some huge organization thinking, experimenting, and imagining, and never get out. But if you don't do any of those things, you will never get out. You're not trapped. You're in the waiting room. Make good use of it.