are we enough enterprising?

This is a long time old question I've been asking to myself.
We work for others, for ages, for all the times of our lives. We get an opportunity to work for good and so called "elite brand" companies. We feel proud of being the one on "that bay". We portray the same through our engagements in the public. We present ourselves with a face full of courage and that we have a metal to have the self on that bay. And there's the other obvious side in us, the side that glitters in dark. That side, we speak about in public but NOT too often. We get to listen to stories of the big enterprises that they were started in a garage or in a warehouse or some shady place for that matter and then they had become "the enterprise" that we always wanted to work for.

With this thinking, I believe, we live for all the times, the living on the other side, the common side, of the table, so to say. And the rare side of the table is left onto those whom we say are the founders of the elite brands. However is the our opinion, I always fail to understand that we never want to see ourselves on the other side, the rare side, the "their side" of the table. This "their side" is, sort of, opaque to us. Is it opaque to us since we are NOT on the other side of the table? If this question is found pretty straight, then the obvious answer is yes. But here, we're just answering the very straight question. The hidden question, however, always remains unanswered since we never dare to question the very question. The problem here is, we don't, rather never, raise reprobation against ourselves for possessing this attitude. And the exactly opposite attitude of being enterprising what makes "them" to sit on the other side, "the rare side" of the table.

I must say, we all carry, or so to speak, had carried in the past, or still will carry in the fore-years, hundreds of thousands of ideas, and few nut cracker ones, what we believe are worth to be implemented, and if done so, would eventually result into a successful enterprise. We, however, sit on them, hatching them, and leave ourselves excoriate if implemented by others, and take pride in ourselves that those ideas were thought off by us well ahead of them. The irony is, there is no reason to overwhelm for being the first thinker, rather a reason to despise this very attitude of us, since we just did NOTHING but thinking on them. Shame on us.

Being enterprising starts with being aggressive on implementing the idea what we think "a billion pound" idea. So, is implementing the idea just enough the worth to see "a billion pound" in it? In my opinion, projection is very important. The projection of what problem the idea is expected to solve. The projection to observe well ahead in time as to how to make the implementation of the idea as a solution to the problem. The plan how to make the implementation publicly available so that the solution to the problem can be applied in real.

Many occasions, I am reproofed on carrying a sort of a pessimistic attitude when I sight a problem. However, on my mind, I keep on imagining what could be the solution to the problem. If we have a problem to face, there has to be a solution to solve the same. Often, there are many possible solutions to a problem. However, only a few are implementable. Of course, each implementation has its ways and means the way it can be engineered. But they are the part of solving the problem. So engineering minds never get afraid of "the way to do" if the problem and the solution to the problem appeals them.

My simple take on this is we should keep asking ourselves, "are we really enough enterprising?" If the answer is NO there's definitely a serious concern we should raise. If the answer is YES, there's a bigger concern to be raised since we are, unfortunately, NOT doing anything on that front.

Let's try to bring a change in ourselves to make ourselves more and more enterprising. Every time we find a problem, let's attempt to think of providing a workable solution to the problem. Let's engineer the solution to the problem. Let's build an enterprise. Business will definitely follow.

- sameer.oak

(21-jul-2012/thu/1117)