Power Play: Powerful people have no regrets

12 December 2012 Rose Herceg

Frank Sinatra once sang “Regrets, I’ve had a few”. Power Players do an excellent job of having none. They see it as a colossal waste of time and energy.

Power Players have a wonderful sense of time – and just how quickly it passes. And it is for this reason that they jump right over the stuff that doesn’t work out without spending a single second looking in the rear-view mirror.

It is an astonishing talent and one that very, very few of us have. Regrets come with the requisite narratives that are played over and over in one’s head. What if I’d done this? What if I’d said that? What if? What if? I should have taken that road or made that decision…

Regrets can slowly kill a person. Because Power Players have a spectacular sense of the passing of time, they are very, very good at not wasting any. One useful trick that Power Players have in their back pocket is to give a potential regret a starring role for exactly one night. After that the show closes.

 

Rose Herceg

Entrepreneur, strategist and author Rose Herceg co-founded Pophouse, specialising in social forecasting, market research and business strategy in 1998 before selling it to STW in 2006. Until recently Rose was strategy director of the STW Group, working across 70 companies on strategy, social forecasting, trends analysis and innovation. She is currently developing several online start-ups in media and media content.


SEARCH
Loading
MOST READ LATEST EDITOR'S PICKS
Social media expert says clamping down on users posting about your product is “missing the point” of
In between the smoke machines and outrageous costume changes there are three important lessons we can learn from this year's
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has reclaimed the title of world’s richest man from Mexican telco magnate Carlos
Selling fake goods can cost you, but it can be hard to tell when something is genuine. Here are four warning signs to heed when importing goods.
The importance of maintaining a sense of

Sponsored Links

Private Media Publications

Crikey

loading...

StartupSmart

loading...

Property Observer

loading...

Womens Agenda

loading...