Tweet or ReTweet ?

I happened across Seth Godin’s blog this morning.

Hadn’t been in a while and wanted to see what his incredible brain was up to. I’d thought of him because I intend to re-read THE DIP this weekend as I prepare for some changes in my consulting practice – but more about that in a few weeks.

Anyway – one of Seth’s recent entries he asked the question -

How often do you tweet instead of retweet? Invent rather than exploit?

His premise was an encouragement for people to step up and make things happen and the reference to Twitter worked well for me.

As I look at my TweetDeck log, there are a fair number of folks who never have anything of their own to say – unless they’re telling the world what they had for lunch or how much their feet hurt. When they do have something worth paying attention to, it’s a RT from someone else.

Zoom out and catch a wider view – everyone in the world can’t be leading or there’d be no one to follow, but for goodness sake we need more folks willing to stick their necks out, to take a chance, to suggest something different.

We all ReTweet. We all pass along something we’ve learned or experienced. The books I write are giant ReTweets of stuff I’ve learned from others, passed through my own filter and organized between covers. But, the real jewels come when someone says, does or thinks something that’s never been said, done or thought before.

Let me RT myself: RT @jimseybert - The real jewels come when someone says, does or thinks something that’s never been said, done or thought before.

My StrengthFinder themes are Ideator, Strategic, Future, Maximizer and Communication so I am inextricably drawn to new things – I can’t help it – and I am always on the lookout for people who can yank my leash into the future.

Are you one of them?