Felt like adding something from the book I am currently reading since it might take a long time to come up with something original for a post.
Including a few guidelines for successful projects from the book:
Do the do-able. Many plans fail because they are too grandiose for the available skills and resources.
Learn from your mistakes. Successful projects are often a new, improved version of an earlier effort.
Understand the technology that could help your project.
Look at the entire project, and look ahead.
Recruit respected spokespeople and endorsers.
Be truthful. Be clear about how far along your plans are-what is hoped for, what is tangible. "Hype" is a part of the problem, not the solution.
Raise your standards.
Build on the quality of people.
Find flexible forms. Structure should be versatile enough to meet the unexpected.
Think in terms of solutions, not problems.
Don't get righteous or rigid about your values. Values comes from perspectives, which can change as circumstances change. Today's enlightenment may be tommorrow's cliche.
Exploit differences.
Find the middle path. Successful projects manage to combine freedom and discipline, individual expression and cooperation, the new and the traditional.
Train you intuition.
Go to the roots of your problems. If you don't, you postpone the day of reckoning at your expense.
Be realistic about the inevitable miscommunication between and confusion among people.
Don't rely on miracles for money.
Respect details and logistics. "Perfection is made of ten thousand trifles," Michelangelo once said, "and perfection is no trifle."
Including a few guidelines for successful projects from the book:
Do the do-able. Many plans fail because they are too grandiose for the available skills and resources.
Learn from your mistakes. Successful projects are often a new, improved version of an earlier effort.
Understand the technology that could help your project.
Look at the entire project, and look ahead.
Recruit respected spokespeople and endorsers.
Be truthful. Be clear about how far along your plans are-what is hoped for, what is tangible. "Hype" is a part of the problem, not the solution.
Raise your standards.
Build on the quality of people.
Find flexible forms. Structure should be versatile enough to meet the unexpected.
Think in terms of solutions, not problems.
Don't get righteous or rigid about your values. Values comes from perspectives, which can change as circumstances change. Today's enlightenment may be tommorrow's cliche.
Exploit differences.
Find the middle path. Successful projects manage to combine freedom and discipline, individual expression and cooperation, the new and the traditional.
Train you intuition.
Go to the roots of your problems. If you don't, you postpone the day of reckoning at your expense.
Be realistic about the inevitable miscommunication between and confusion among people.
Don't rely on miracles for money.
Respect details and logistics. "Perfection is made of ten thousand trifles," Michelangelo once said, "and perfection is no trifle."
