Variation

Variation means that not everything is the same. Some people are tall some are fat. Some are men and others are rodents. People are old and others are rich. Sometimes it's raining and other times it's cold. Some people have red hair and others wear jeans.

We're fat one day and thin after we lose weight. Or we're poor when we're young but become wealthy through hard work or luck or both. Or we're born men but have our sex changed and become women.

The concept is simple in definition but incredibly difficult and complicated in implementation. We'll talk more about variation as we go. Entrepreneurs will need to learn how to define what they mean by variation and how to measure it and how to interpret it.

Variation itself varies. The temperature varies on a Fahrenheit scale from around minus 200 degrees to plus 200 degrees. People's ages vary from 0 to 120 or so. People's gender can only be male or female. Their religion can be any number of classifications: Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Islam, Buddhist, and so on. Protestant can be further broken down in to Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, Quaker, Swedenborgian, and so on.

In the English alphabet there are only 26 characters. Only 26. Yet those 26 characters depending upon how they are combined and ordered and how they are used produces millions of words. There is only a finite number of genes. Yet combining those genes in different ways produces millions of different kinds of people.

Variation is one of the wonderful things that the world offers us. We just have to learn how to understand it, measure it, analyze it, and find meaning in it.

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