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Originally Posted by gblake
FIRST's build season does resemble a competitive proposal sprint, and other real-world business activities...
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That does not mean that business today, that helped wreck a global economy, is a smart model to copy. I would like to inspire to do more than break your butt to win then often under deliver which is all too common in business today. I'd like to inspire to improve. (see below)
At the core - I ask merely for honesty. I suspect the greatest fear is if you tell perspective schools what this really is like: they will run from it because this is no simple quick commitment or fast win. This is basically 2 years before you become an 'overnight success'. That is the reality and clearly we prefer to put lipstick on it.
Added - Think about this. Today the computer on your desk is more than powerful enough to send a man to the moon. More than powerful enough to figure out the parameters of nuclear power. You have Internet so fast that only a nation state could dream of it 30 years ago. Yet our business have delivered Twitter, Facebook and first person shooters. Even today I find myself counseling students that: with a cheap Internet connection, a cheap computer from Walmart and a cheap All-In-One printer they have something that would takes years of work to gather 20 years ago. Yet people still can not find work with the barrier that low. Yes there is a problem with what we call the high bar.