Recalibration is a process not an event
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There have been many questions and comments around my previous post on 'Recession & Recalibration' and here is one of the most interesting insight that was brought - 'This recession could well mandate recalibration but it would be foolish to look at recalibration as an event. It, in fact, is a process and that too a never ending one at that' - Kudos, Well said Bill!
Pondered a bit on what Bill had to say and as I kept on thinking late into the night, admiration levels grew - Recalibration, to me now sounds like, a spirit/belief that we must adopt at all times in our lives - Recession or no recession! In fact many of us do recalibrate and more so when needed - some consciously and some sub-consciously. Now, when we do - what the heck? - The point is to be aware of it and make it a part of DNA. I like it to be linked to entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurs' spirit/belief, good ones at that, revolves around 'wanting to succeed/finish' and not around 'wanting to start' and this is the vital difference - wanting to start is available in abundance and wanting to finish and actually manging to finish is a very rare commodity.
Further, entrepreneurship is also not about getting to struck to the idea with which we have started - changing the idea mid-way, after all, is not a bad idea. There will be variety of reasons which could necessitate us changing the initial idea - market conditions, disruptive technologies, consumer preferences etc.
Now, recalibration is also something similar - we start recalibrating at a particular point in time and do it over a period of time. During that period of time doing , times change and hence it demands further recalibration and the cycle goes on and on and on - probably this is what Bill referred as a process.
Well, we don't need to start a new company to be called an entrepreneur - if we keep recalibrating ourselves we will be entrepreneurs of our lives!
Tom Peters once said, on entrepreneur's belief as follows and I think it makes a great deal of sense:
"I’m like a wirewalker and I know that whoever gets on the wire may fall off, but I just don’t consider this as sufficient reason to stay on the ground. I keep plugging-I get knocked down-I try again-On the floor-Back on my feet-I try again.”
Pondered a bit on what Bill had to say and as I kept on thinking late into the night, admiration levels grew - Recalibration, to me now sounds like, a spirit/belief that we must adopt at all times in our lives - Recession or no recession! In fact many of us do recalibrate and more so when needed - some consciously and some sub-consciously. Now, when we do - what the heck? - The point is to be aware of it and make it a part of DNA. I like it to be linked to entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurs' spirit/belief, good ones at that, revolves around 'wanting to succeed/finish' and not around 'wanting to start' and this is the vital difference - wanting to start is available in abundance and wanting to finish and actually manging to finish is a very rare commodity.
Further, entrepreneurship is also not about getting to struck to the idea with which we have started - changing the idea mid-way, after all, is not a bad idea. There will be variety of reasons which could necessitate us changing the initial idea - market conditions, disruptive technologies, consumer preferences etc.
Now, recalibration is also something similar - we start recalibrating at a particular point in time and do it over a period of time. During that period of time doing , times change and hence it demands further recalibration and the cycle goes on and on and on - probably this is what Bill referred as a process.
Well, we don't need to start a new company to be called an entrepreneur - if we keep recalibrating ourselves we will be entrepreneurs of our lives!
Tom Peters once said, on entrepreneur's belief as follows and I think it makes a great deal of sense:
"I’m like a wirewalker and I know that whoever gets on the wire may fall off, but I just don’t consider this as sufficient reason to stay on the ground. I keep plugging-I get knocked down-I try again-On the floor-Back on my feet-I try again.”
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