What’s Your Trim Tab?

A trimtab on a ship's rudder

Buckminster Fuller believed that small, integrity-driven actions can steer massive change. He pointed to the trim tab—a tiny flap on a ship’s rudder—as a metaphor: shift it slightly, and the whole vessel turns.

“You build that low pressure,” he said, “by getting rid of a little nonsense… things that don’t work and aren’t true.”

So—what’s your trim tab? And what might you let go of to get it moving?

A coach can help. Let’s talk.

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