Comments on: @Headstart 09 Bangalore – Ideas are easy, Execution is key! – Ashish Gupta, MD Helion Ventures

By: Madhav Shivpuri

Madhav Shivpuri — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 01:38:39 +0000

Rajiv thanks for collecting and sharing the illuminating words of wisdom of Mr.Ashish Gupta. They hit a home run with me. I might make this post into a poster and hang it on the wall right next to me.

“Ideas are easy but execution is key” – got to remember that one always!

Cheers.

By: Rajiv Dingra

Rajiv Dingra — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:09:18 +0000

@Urmila: Thanks urmila for the correction. Will make the changes in the post.

By: Urmila

Urmila — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:51:24 +0000

The awareness, planning horizon and execution horizon point wsa slightly different. He was not suggesting that one spends twice the time on awareness as on planning but rather that the horizon of awareness should be twice as far as that of planning. So if one is planning for 6 months ahead, be aware of what may come 12 months out.

By: maneesh

maneesh — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:17:36 +0000

According to ashish gupta one should spend more time getting aware on his/her particular function and the surrounding evironment. He stated that one should spend twice the time on awareness as one spends on planning and twice the time on planning as one spends on execution in order to set oneself up for scaling for the future.

- Correct me if I am wrong but wouldn’t this be applicable to role definers and recruiters (often founders/ceos) as much as it is upto the individual, i.e to let people settle in before expecting results from the high potential recruits…