Instagram it initially was Burbn with two main features - friends sharing whiskey and bourbon offers as they had fun including sharing their locations . He not only conceived the idea but went ahead and built a prototype . He had something to show and test . This is what was refined and that is how Instagram was born . They hit over 25,000 users on launch day !
This is the summary of the story , the real story is that without other people , Instagram would have remained Burbn and probably not so much of an amazing app . Without the small team he assembled and the guided insights of his network then the story would be totally different .
Noah upon realizing he stood no chance with recruiting from outside , did the best thing any entrepreneur worth their salt would do and that is to develop your inside team . He drew from their abilities and paired them to get the best results . He taught them what he knew , he inspired them on the greater cause of their project . He must have empowered them to make decisions as long as they were in line with the master design . He would not have achieved this all by himself . No matter how gifted , inspired or spirit-filled he was .
We have an option of choosing a team , building on their strengths , coaching them and growing together . A tent can never stretch with only the center post , you need other posts , pegs , ropes even hooks among other things . To work with people is hard work . We need to define the work , meter the rewards and scale the work into manageable pieces . It is only then that we can find the right fit or coach those we have to deliver their very best .
Mission Mangal is an Indian film based on a true story . It depicts turning adversity into success . The then President of the country commissioned a space mission to mars and one man is put in charge of it . The drama spirals around the fact that the entire Indian Space Research Organization faced budget cuts . This cascades to fewer people they had to work with in all their projects . The Director General at the organization further complicated issues by his skeptism over the Mission Mangal ’ s viability .
The determination of the mission ’ s team leader played by Akshay Kumar is the genius move . The organization seconded to him people with little or no experience and those who did were almost retiring .
The best practice in winning people with your idea is crystallizing it into a value preposition . Figure it out to the tiniest of details you possibly can . Answering the what , why , how , who and when of the idea . Then model the idea or solution against a use case scenario . Determine the users and the steps they have to go through . This forms the design layout of your idea .
He laid bare the daunting task ahead of them and passionately shared the vision . They together then drew a plan with timelines and requirements . They distributed the deliverables among the team members and the mission began .
People will always have issues . The team members face personal challenges that are unique and common to humans . One of them had to contend with her husbands ’ demands that she is spending too much time away from her family . Another is under pressure to get married as “ her days are numbered ”. Another one is old therefore always sleepy , late among other encumbrances .
The Director General does the unthinkable and pulls the plug on them when they had made some good progress . The team leader then has to lobby beyond his pay grade , budging into uninvited high-level meetings and all . Saying what has to be said and doing the heavy lifting for his mission . When he is given a small window to continue , he faces another challenge of reconstituting the team and encouraging them to do the impossible . Aptly put by Mattie Stepanek as “ Unity is strength …
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