What are the reasons behind all this work?
If you landed here, you’re probably asking yourself the question “what drives an individual to put so much effort in such a thing for no apparent return?”. Well, that’s a legit question. Let’s try to answer it.
Education as a driving cause
When I was in high school, I heard a quote stating “what if the cure for cancer was in the head of someone who cannot afford education?”. While I since then realised that such logic doesn’t make perfect sense, it resonated with me in the sense that education is still a challenge for many.
This is a topic that I’m still particularly sensible about. In fact, I strongly believe that if addressed properly, could make the future a lot brighter, with a lot less effort from everybody. Even more so when applied to kids, or people in general living in poorer countries of the world.
In my lucky life, within my business endeavours, I also realised that certain know how is only accessible through paid, expensive classes or through firms such as consultancies offering to perform services for which you need the know how.
Having being a management consultant myself, I appreciate that the role of experts in these fields is crucial and often necessary to perform certain activities. However, there are certain situations where having basic knowledge of the topics can benefit even professionals whose daily job is not related to such activities. Some examples I experienced first hand:
- clients who weren’t able to comprehend the complexity in rolling out certain applications (e.g. CRMs, ERPs) in their organisation
- certain stakeholders who – and this is a common one – just talk about doing “change management” without even considering communication as part of their plan
- working on a project with colleagues and needing to perform certain activities (e.g. mapping processes) but having no resource for them to refer to so that we didn’t have to spend time training them one by one on the different stages of the project
These three examples are definitely amongst the ones that inspired me to spend (a considerable amount of) time in creating the content you see on the website.
Further, given that this content will be to “get people started”, many concepts have been simplified for ease of delivery, even when the actual business context is complex. It’s intended and needed for this purpose, since the idea is to “Make complex business simple”.
People and teamwork as the enablers
As a person working full time in a demanding job, I value every minute that I get to spend with my family. So there’s the first constraint: time.
Then there’s the second one: knowledge. I’ve been pretty blessed in working in small startups as well as huge multinational companies, from Italy to Germany to Australia; however the wealth of knowledge I gathered won’t ever be compared to the one of those who are experts in their niche.
One thing I learnt in building and leading teams is that when you bring talented people together, magic things happen. You reach results a lot faster than planned and often of outstanding quality.
Hence, everything you see on this site is the product of many people’s work.
Some examples? I had friends and former colleagues creating logos, animations and taking professional photos for the presentations (curious about them?). I asked some very trusted people to review the content I produce, and helping out in publishing it on the site. Heck, I even used free resources from the internet (wordpress, presentation template, images, etc.) so that we could focus on the core idea – providing informative content instead of getting distracted with the rest.
I also hope to collaborate with some of these subject experts on future content – some have already expressed interest, so I’m positive something good will come!
Drop me a line if you’re interested!
Feedback and engagement as a reward
As you probably noticed, there is no form of marketing on this site, and nothing that is being sold. Everything is available for free, no login required. Not even a subscription to a newsletter (no, seriously).
If you wish to show appreciation because you found something useful here, or would like to participate to it, I would love to hear from you! Even just a “thank you” would bright up the day of all involved – and I’ll make sure the feedback is passed on.
On the other end, you may be an expert who found a mistake or inaccuracy somewhere; I would love to know as this will give me the chance to correct it for the next reader. Just as important, I would love to hear your feedback – positive or critical as it could be!
Thanks for your interest in this project!
–Marco
