I do this all the time when I help design, develop and deliver big projects.
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I do this all the time when I help design, develop and deliver big projects.
Get my exact process:
www.thebigprojectcollective.com/p/to-do-mean...
Start with curiosity.
Then build up in an iterative manner your knowledge that is more like literacy than in depth knowledge.
There is one thing that makes it much easier to get high-powered people to collaborate.
Knowing something about their fields of expertise.
The challenge is learning something about all of those fields of expertise.
Kania, J., & Kramer, M. (2011). Collective Impact. Stanford Social Innovation Review, 9(1), 36–41. https://doi.org/10.48558/5900-KN19
The Strive nonprofit in the US bringing together 300 community organizations
The Apollo moonshot.
More than 400,000 people involved.
There are many multi-party collaborations that have made stunning achievements.
Small and simple collaborations are just not that powerful.
Multi-party collaborations, while potentially much more powerful, are however constrained by collaboration’s evil step-sister, competition.
Our ability to collaborate determines the scope of what we achieve.
Multi-party collaborations are where the greatest and most meaningful achievements happen. 🧵
We are no where near knowing or understanding all the inputs that determine the difference between health and disease.
This would have to mean an across the board suspension of the need to validate anything with clinical trials.
It also assumes that will at some point be able to predict everything, which may not be the case every if we knew and understood all the inputs. 👇
This is what science is about:
"We all pitch in to hunt down the knowledge that can’t be found any other way. We don’t seek the knowledge that will turn us a profit tomorrow—that’s what businesses are for—but the knowledge that will support a permanently better life."
- Adam Mastroianni
If you want to find meaning, the fastest hack is to get involved in a big project.
Getting involved in a big project not only gives you a'Why', it also provides the 'What', and the 'How'.
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If you want to find meaning, the fastest hack is to get involved in a big project.
Getting involved in a big project not only gives you a'Why', it also provides the 'What', and the 'How'.
See how this works:
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Average people do make plans.
Smart people do build systems.
Here's how to become one of the smart ones.
🔹Engage in at least one big project
🔹Throw out the plans
🔹Start that project with an adaptive development phase
🔹Build and iterate systems
If you are not pursuing a big project with an adaptive, iterative mindset good luck maintaining enthusiasm.
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This is why your big project isn't working.
You are holding onto the security blanket of a detailed project plan.
Big projects are about an adaptive, iterative mindset.
Small project thinking does not work for big projects.
When you think about it, its obstacles and opposition that hold back the big projects that you care about the most.
Yet nicely formatted milestones or deliverable do nothing to help you overcome unexpected obstacles and opposition.
Here is what to do instead:
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Forget about milestones.
If you are focusing on milestones in big projects you are getting it wrong.
The linking of listening for understanding and love is remarkable. It reminds me of the pressured, effervescent conversations between friends often late night at party when they start building on each others ideas.
The beauty of a complex, ambitious project:
🔹You don't know where you will end up,
🔹You don't know how you will get there,
🔹But if you build your big project as a inter-connected network of repeatable systems it will nearly risk free.
On the other side of conflict is rapid progress.
When you find yourself dancing with conflict:
🔹don't get personal
Do get curious about why.
🔹Why do they think that way?
Plumb the depths of conflict to find the common ground.
Its always there.
Conflict can be a gushing source of creativity.
"Keep it simple stupid!" is simply wrong.
By keeping it simple we will never fulfil our potential.
What most people don't realize is that a big project designed well is completely risk free.
www.thebigprojectcollective.com/p/big-projec...
"Keep it simple stupid!" is simply wrong.
By keeping it simple we will never fulfil our potential.
What most people don't realize is that a big project designed well is completely risk free.
www.thebigprojectcollective.com/p/big-projec...
Step 9:
Develop opportunities as the come.
Don't be blinded by the need to deliver projects.
Opportunities increase interest, enthusiasm and possibilities.
Step 7:
Seek funding.
Lobby funders.
Apply for grants.
Stimulate policy makers.
Step 6:
Tell the world what you are doing and why.
Step 4:
Expand the network.
Engage other disciplines and stakeholders.