Recipe For Successful Project
Posted on February 20, 2003 in thoughts.
my recipe for a successful project includes three ingredients: idea, implementation, and timing.
Idea formation take a creative bend, sometimes an out of
the box mindset. Perhaps this is an "innate" trait,
perhaps inspired by non-rational forces :), perhaps a
heightened degree of common sense.
Implementation strategy directly maps into your objectives for the project; there are lots of great ideas in the world that never get implemented. Even the Internet as an idea was thought of by hundreds (if not more) of folks, but Tim Berners Lee was the one who knew how to really make it happen. Implementing requires personal sacrifices for the idea; and if your objectives are service related, this requires you to "be the change".
Timing is the other crucial factor. Quantam physics has this deep principle -- information organizes matter. A well implemented idea will go nowhere if there is no "market" for it, at the moment. Webvans of the world were brilliant ideas, flawlessly executed (with $750MM funding et all), but failed because the timing wasn't right. Well meaning, creative, work-horses go wrong without the wisdom to nail the timing.
Most of great ideas that the world has seen have these three pieces figured out. Most of them will also tell you it was a matter of "being in the right place at the right time". So really, it take a lot of humility to execute anything, without settling for personal suffering in the longer term. People with egos just cash-out on their 'luck', inevitably bringing misery to themselves.
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