Do something, even if it is wrong, do something.Huh? I wondered what he meant, really meant. Did he want me to make mistakes, want me to get in trouble? Was he setting me up?
He wasn't. He believed that the only true way you learn things is by trying, by doing. He believed that you never really learned much if all you did was wait to be told what to do. It took me a few years to realize that I believed it too.
I also believe there are four indispensable things needed to build a company: an idea, enough money to implement (start to implement) it, a system or process and people who can do the required tasks. If you have a good idea, enough money, a good system/process and talented people you have a chance: take any away and you don't. Period.
Not many things in life are more Darwinian than building a business: no one outside the company cares if it lives and plenty want it to die. Only the strong survive.
I can't help Dick with the money, and, at least initially, can not help much on the idea. (Besides I don't think he needs help in these areas anyway.) I can offer a lot of theory about SOPs and business processes, and metrics and such, all good stuff, but believe the best I can offer is manager/staff development.
Oh, and dealing with the "gulp" every entrepreneur gets when s/he lets him/self realize just how enormous the task is. Dealing with it without whiskey too.
So expect many more development posts with process/system posts thrown in. And more videos from Greg's office. I hope to improve lighting, focus and sound. But I refuse to wear a wig.
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