Parental advice!
My son Brendan Canty has just qualified from CIT, having completed a multi media course. He wants to work in film in some way and he is also really passionate about music.
How unusual – a 22 year old being passionate about music!
Like every other parent you worry about what your children will do – you want them to find a job, earn a living and in this climate it has never been quite so tough.
“You need to find a god solid job” I hear myself saying..
Well – he has set up his own website operating under the name Feel Good Lost and he has been busy producing videos for bands from all over the world – with the web and modern technology this is all quite easy, apparently!
His last music video was for a “secret” American solo artist who goes under the name Slow Magic and the track he produced was for a song called Corvette Cassette. There is a video producers peer website called Vimeo (this is like a worldwide YouTube for video and film producers), which has just featured this song as a staff pic – at the time of writing the video has been viewed 63,000 times across the world.
While Brendan does some excellent corporate video work for Fuzion and his own clients he excels when he combines his love of music and his film profession. On Friday nights he DJ’s in The Pavilion in Cork combining music and visuals as part of his unique set operating under the Feel Good Lost name.
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/27304056 w=400&h=300]
Slow Magic // Corvette Cassette from Feel Good Lost on Vimeo.
He is following his dream and his passion and it had me thinking about career choices and Three Circles..
In Jim Collins fabulous business book Good to Great (for me this book is a business bible) he talks about companies using a Three Circle criteria as a guide to the activities they should get involved in:
A company should only engage in activities that:
- It is passionate about
- It can excel at
- It can make money from
The basic principle is that if companies concentrate their efforts on activities that meet all three of these criteria then they will inevitably be very successful – this is one of the factors that Jim Collins attributes to the success of what he calls “Great” companies.
If you are looking for a new job or a new challenge how about using the Three Circle Criteria for deciding which path you choose?
Greg Canty is a partner of Fuzion
