Build it and They Will Come
Today at a networking meeting, in between cups of coffee and pleasant work based chats, I began discussing the Drumnosis project with on of my friends. We were discussing the need to get funding for our current and latest candidate for the Drumnosis year long course. As we are a new company and we rely in the main on grant funding and sponsorship there is a large delay in actually getting the funding into our company account.
My solution to this is simple. We start training our candidate anyway and acquire the funds as we go along. If we wait for the funding to come in, we could spend a lot of time sitting on our hands doing very little. This can (and most likely will) lead to a sense of powerlessness, which in turn will cause anxiety. Anxiety will lead to all kinds of unpleasantness (it is after all “The Only Problem”) .
And so we have elected to move ahead regardless. My colleague and friend at the aforementioned networking meeting said it best: “Build it and they will come”.
I have my own neat little version: Do it now, fix it while you are going.
Too much time is wasted planning (worrying) for things that might go wrong, instead of dealing with things that could go right. This is not to say that we don’t plan. But ultimately as the old military saying goes, “No plan survives the first shot of battle”
So dive in!
J.F.D.I.
Today at a networking meeting, in between cups of coffee and pleasant work based chats, I began discussing the Drumnosis project with on of my friends. We were discussing the need to get funding for our current and latest candidate for the Drumnosis year long course. As we are a new company and we rely in the main on grant funding and sponsorship there is a large delay in actually getting the funding into our company account.
My solution to this is simple. We start training our candidate anyway and acquire the funds as we go along. If we wait for the funding to come in, we could spend a lot of time sitting on our hands doing very little. This can (and most likely will) lead to a sense of powerlessness, which in turn will cause anxiety. Anxiety will lead to all kinds of unpleasantness (it is after all “The Only Problem”) .
And so we have elected to move ahead regardless. My colleague and friend at the aforementioned networking meeting said it best: “Build it and they will come”.
I have my own neat little version: Do it now, fix it while you are going.
Too much time is wasted planning (worrying) for things that might go wrong, instead of dealing with things that could go right. This is not to say that we don’t plan. But ultimately as the old military saying goes, “No plan survives the first shot of battle”
So dive in!
J.F.D.I.