I can't say that seed companies are on the top of my list as far as my business interests are yet reading Chasing a bigger yield (FT, June 15) an interview given by Hugh Grant, not the actor, the head of Monsanto, to Hal Weitzman, something stuck with me.
“If you’ve no idea where you’re going, how can
you get anywhere?” Mr. Grant offers and being a realist recognizes “When you define a target, you’ve got at least a 50 per cent chance of
hitting it”.
If you don't get started you will never get there, whatever that there-anywhere is.
Following different threads, call it 'meandering with a purpose' might by a way to go about it.
If you don't try, you will never know if it might have worked.
Not a contrarian view but a different approach is offered by Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval in The Small Revolution (Change This, May 6, 2009).
Taking tiger mountain by strategy (Brian Eno borrowing) for Monday Work Etiquette # 94
Previously: Offering Something Based on a True Story, Unique Experiences