Small is powerful. Small is beautiful. Small is effective. Be it an idea, an object or action. Small makes it simple to understand and implement without too much of selling, convincing or confronting…
A small group say two to ten people can achieve wonders much easily than of any other size. It is easy to coordinate, get and integrate results, identify solutions away from normal in much less time than one can imagine in a small group of committed people.
Cooperatives with 2 to 10 participating leaders have created wonderful living conditions for a large community. Start-ups with handful of dreamer doers have created big companies that are more sustainable than big corporations! Small team of doctors and scientists continue to bring smile on the faces of many, continuously!
Why is this so?
- Focus on the goal is easy to achieve so are the steps required to achieve them!
- Quick trials and quicker feedback between team members helps reinforcing confidence at each step!
- Creating and sharing the same passion is easy with the bonding that develops quickly between the members of the team
- Collaboration and Urgency of task accomplishment brings down competition and waste of energy!
- The power of WE v/s Ability of ME is easy to understand and appreciate!
High performing groups thus are a small set of people with single goal at at a time!
It might be good to keep and pursue small goals in life, continuously leading to bigger achievement – over a period of time – like the most advised systematic invest plans! There are people who have kept single goal in life and taken small steps to achieve them!
Small is truly fascinating and worth a try!