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> Get Articles > Business Practice > Do It Right Instead of Again Do It Right Instead of Again Download as PDFAl LeBlanc Alboomerjournals.com Boomer Journals http://www.boomerjournals.com Do It Right Instead of Again! by Al LeBlanc If Only I Had Known I awoke one morning in a far away time And found the past repeating without reason or rhyme. Truly are we doomed to do everything again? Is life but not a game where we continually spin Only to revisit every measure of all past sin? Had I only known the future in mine eye of my mind I would have strived harder to not see this for a second time. But now that I am here let me learn from the past And complete the task at hand and this time for the last. I have been around in small business realm for many years. In my youth I was no less impatient than the average soul. Everything needed to be done now because I was so impatient to enjoy the results. I wanted the income and the recognition for my creativity, rightfully so. Unfortunately the results were many times less than satisfactory primarily because of that haste. Even the most skilled among us who have elevated our skills to the point where we can function on auto pilot find ourselves going back over and over to change or tweak this and that. In today's fast paced world people have put a premium on speed. A person who is able to deliver the goods with both accuracy and speed is cherished indeed in most circles. As I dwell on the topic it comes to me that one of the great tests of true quality is for something or someone to be able to stand the test of time. Do you think sufficient time given to the creative process would yield results that would otherwise last a more satisfactory period of time? In actuality it is a fine balance. A process at too great a rate of speed will be dotted with errors of omission and foolish over-sights, whereas a process done too slowly will lose the enthusiasm of the participants involved in the development process. True creativity requires a certain level of stress to properly stimulate ingenuity in areas of problem solving and design but there must be somebody on the team that forces the hand of the impatient to "what if" every facet of the project. Yes, we need to launch the project and get some income generating but then again what is the true cost of a project which fails in the early stages because the perceived return never materialized from a lack of patience and discipline to do it right on every level. Errors will occur in all endeavors, but why contribute to the list when patience and discipline in the development stages would make a difference. 1- State the goal and vision 2- Build an autonomous team with that vision in mind 3- Revisit the vision throughout the creative process 4- Have an outside antagonist not involved in the project challenge results as routine 5- Have regular "what-if" sessions 6- Make it better than it has to be in all facets 7- Dedication will be served by regular encouragement, appreciation, an recognition. 8- Test all results before release in every conceivable venue 9- Under promote just enough to make people's surprises up In this rush rush-rush world of templates and pre-packaged solutions too many people confuse painting by the numbers with true creativity. That is why so many Internet projects fall by the wayside. Flash and fluff grab the limelight as we are amazed at the colors and spinning wheels of the pretty sites, but the shallowness of the ideas and lack of true vision relegate them quickly to the scrap pile. For a project to truly succeed there must be a dreamer within the mix who has a vision for a project that can truly enhance people's lives and make a positive contribution to the quality of those lives. "Just for the money" is OK if a quick economic death is part of the expected results. A quality idea can be adjusted to changing technologies in many cases. Make the excellence of your work become a recognizable signature. copyright 2001; Al LeBlanc www.boomerjournals.com Permission to reprint granted with credits and notice to the author. How useful did you find this article? This article can be downloaded freely from http://www.get-articles.com and used on your website or in your ezine so long as the author is credited and their resource box left intact. You should not change any links in the article, and where the article is used on a website it's links should be clickable. Please see our terms and conditions page for more information: http://www.get-articles.com/authors-publishers-terms.php |
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