The Star Wars Beatles Creation You Need to See
The latest and greatest thing making it’s way around social media this week is the utterly fantastic Star Wars Beatles mashup, that makes A New Hope into a musical, with Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band as the soundtrack (with new lyrics). It’s ethereally good. You owe it to you to yourself to watch it. It adds a lot to the original film. It’s funny, and at times surprisingly poignant. It matches up better than the Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon.
You’re not going to get through track 6, “He’s Leaving Home” without getting a little choked up. Even when you know it’s coming, they’re going to turn it in such a way that’ll really get you. Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru get the tribute that they’ve so long deserved, and it doesn’t feel out of place at all. Minor spoiler, you’ll never look at the last chord from a Day in the Life the same way again.
Lessons
But what can you learn from this in terms of growing your organization?
A lot of innovations aren’t really all that new. They’re just taking an existing solution to one problem, and using it to solve another. It’s all about mashing existing ideas together to find something new.
Did you know that without atomizing spray bottles to sanitize 19th century operating rooms, we’d never have the automobile. The atomizing spray function of the bottles they used was eventually adapted into the carburetor.
Think about how you can adapt the solutions that have worked for one problem into another. Might your fundraising marketing be useful in growing your membership, or vice versa? Could two problems you have solve each other?
Could the need for something to do for one group of older kids in your program be solved by letting them help the younger kids?
Taking the time to think about problems in different ways is crucial to getting them solved.
And if nothing else, it’s a cool video, isn’t it?