What do you mean? Teacher Pang explained: "It is to nail every nail firmly and keep nailing it down. We must be patient, not eager for quick success, not eager for success, focusing on the big picture and starting small."
What is "think big and start small"? This paper gives two examples of book publishing projects.
The first part is a rare edition of ancient legal books. At first, the book was planned to be declared 120 volumes, and the total funding for the application was planned to be10 million yuan. The final declaration scale is set at 30 volumes.
Why did it plummet from 120 to 30 volumes? There are several reasons.
First, the amount of funding applied for is too large. The National Publishing Fund mainly supports small and medium-sized projects. Although there are also big projects, this book has no advantages compared with other big projects, and it is difficult to apply for success.
Second, the editing power is insufficient. Such a grand project needs many competent editors, but not so many editors in the club devote themselves to this book.
Third, data collection is very difficult and the release cycle is very long. With so many manuscripts, it's hard to ask to finish them all in a short time. This makes it difficult to ensure the smooth completion of the project.
The second part is "the research series on the basic categories of China's traditional philosophy of law". This series was planned on 20 14. At the time of filing in 2020, 10 submitted the first draft or part of the draft, but it was finally decided to be selected as five.
From 10 to 5, the reason is also prudent: to avoid the influence of different manuscript styles and uneven level on the overall quality of the series, and the five successful manuscripts provide clear writing standards for other manuscripts.
What is "think big and start small"? In my opinion, thinking from the overall situation and thinking from the overall situation is the long-term doctrine advocated by Warren Buffett.
Starting small, it has something in common with the minimum feasible product (MVP) in Eric Rice's book Lean Entrepreneurship.