“I’m not an ambi-turner. It’s a problem I had since I was a baby. I can’t turn left.” ~ Zoolander

I loved the movie Zoolander. I think I’ve seen it about 10 or 11 times. It was on TV at the gym the other day and man, did it make my workout a whole lot better and faster.

As I watched, it came to that scene where Matilda rushes Zoolander away after the walk-off. Hansel won the walk-off by resorting to pulling his underwear out of his pants, but Zoolander claims to win, “All [Hansel] had to do was turn left.”

Zoolander goes onto say that he’s not an ambiturner and that he’s never been able to turn left. A potentially fatal flaw for a runway model, but certainly a flaw created in one’s mind.

I think a lot of us run our businesses as though we aren’t ambiturners. We keep doing the same things over and over again – just because we’ve always done them. We see ways we can adapt and change, but we avoid them because they seem complicated, too expensive or somehow pull us out of our comfort zones.

But see, that’s a problem. It keeps us from being more productive and profitable. And let’s face it, if our competition is an ambiturner, it might just mean we lose the walk off – and seriously, I’m not prepared to pull underwear out of my butt to win.