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Starter vs Joiner. There is always a cost to starting something. Surely it is cool & that’s how innovation happens.Visualise this, that in a universe where there are finite resources,can we afford for everyone to start something?Do we need one more charitable organization for eg?
So in your city/town/community, if we had every one just opening charitable organisations, At which point would your say, another "cause/event", just cannibalises money that would have gone to another event? Likely pretty quickly. So if 1 more event could raise 1 more rupee
wouldn’t the cause or organisation be better served with adding other committed/passionate/resilient people to help make existing projects more innovative, deliver faster with less waste & overall be more successful? Likely yes. There is a general fetish around starting things
Startup culture is something we talk about, it surely has a +ve impact plus most days we wonder about how to inject the same DNA into more things. Don't get me wrong, there’s plenty of awesomeness in startup culture.But we must not overlook an other key area whilst promoting this
Which is, that for every startup we create or every cause/event/goal we have today, we still need people to join awesome projects that have already spent time, energy & money to get started. We need people to feel great about joining things others have started.Joiner Starter fit
If you can be a success multiplier in some one else's "original idea" your contribution is equally important. We cant be defeated by "if not built here not welcome" mentality. You don't have to build some thing to know how to scale it. Also the builder cant always achieve scale.
Most (startups) die like restaurants. Both have people problems. One cant find the right people to allow to scale/grow the idea, the other cant find people/customers to stay in business.A great chief isn't the only thing that guarantees a restaurants success
Just like a great founder cant guarantee a startups success. Most times you need teams.We need people to feel like they can bring amazing things to the table that raise the level of the orgs purpose. We need to honour those contributions as highly as we do those of the founders
we need 100s or even 1000s of intrapreneurs. An intrepreneur is someone who tries to make things better from the inside. Folks who have the same allegiance, grit & determination as the founders to succeed. They must be rewarded disproportionally compared to average 9-5 employees
But we have a major trust deficit.We have so many large industrial/other groups who have a host of key-men(sadly not too many women in these roles yet) but they are not rewarded for their commitment to the cause of making the saith rich.This will be a dying breed post millennials
The former generation of intrepreneurs/fixers/doers had little to no options, they were told that its a gift to work for the founder or the second generation of wealth, that it is their good fortune they are associated with group A-B-C. That lack of reward basically killed dreams
Not for them but for their families & generations of these saith/founder-drones.We basically made an entire generation be grateful for association & access without any recognition or reward. Some got lucky, very few got wealthy & little to none became as memorable as the founders
Greed, social status, classism all resulted in the outcomes we see before us. House of XYZ to AB Group etc have all rewarded loyalists (by having them around), but as the next generation comes in, there are professional teams also coming across. But these people became
fixtures not because they were the best in their skill group alone but because they were loyal, subservient & put up with a lot of shit.The modern orgs will be more transactional, but if they have the right culture & authenticity they will be able to attract and retain joiners
If you are a modern day startup or even an old school one, you must ask your self what is your USP? Why should some one bring their "special skills" to grow your outcomes, without having a key-reward possibility in their own professional and commercial outcomes?
There’s a lot of room to do good. There are many challenges to tackle. It’ll take starters and joiners. Which one are you? @rebootdude @YusufJan @raza_matin @jehan_ara @nabeelaq @SaadGH @shahjahan_ch @ShahidM99 @TalhaIzhar
