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MBA1325 Q&A Wednesday: HELP! I have a huge project with no framework or instructions. Where do I start?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2019

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

A big project is like a big meal: you can’t swallow it all at once. When the task before you is huge, where do you start? It’s Q&A Wednesday! We’ve got a question from a listener with a conventional job, but a problem that’s very common in entrepreneurship. Our listener’s new boss wants her to implement a comprehensive new approach office-wide, but has left it completely up to her to decide how.

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0:00.0

Heyo! Welcome to the 100 Army show because your business deserves the best.

0:14.0

That's why we deliver daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world.

0:17.7

I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar Zenholm.

0:21.0

I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community online.

0:26.5

And today's episode is a Q&A Wednesday episode.

0:28.8

On our Q&A Wednesday episodes, I answer a question from one of you one of our listeners.

0:34.0

Today's question is from Fontima and Fontima asks,

0:37.4

Help!

0:38.3

I have a huge project to take on with no framework or instructions.

0:42.2

Where do I start?

0:43.3

The Vadma has just started in a new job,

0:45.8

and her boss has asked her to implement the Maker Movement

0:49.3

philosophy to their workplace.

0:52.2

For those are not familiar, the Maker Movement is a philosophy where you build,

0:56.1

you create, and you learn by doing and making. This is something that has been tried and true for thousands of years.

1:05.0

Literally, our ancestors have been building and making things and that's how they learn how to do them.

1:10.0

So Vodma's got to implement this philosophy in her new workplace.

1:15.0

How does she do it? Her boss just told her to run with it.

1:18.0

That's what we're going to be covering. It's a very specific question,

1:21.0

but it has to do with the idea of how do you get started with a very simple idea

1:26.2

that's not clear, you don't have an implementation plan, you don't have a framework, you don't

1:29.8

have instructions, this is a metaphor for starting a business, and we're going to boil it down to its

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