Freely you have received, freely give – Part 4

My team is here: TWIN team. When I say “team”, I refer to the people who stayed on. I had assumed a drop rate of 20%; it was actually 50%. Other assumptions went wrong too (in hindsight, they were presumptions not assumptions ); the lessons I learnt are:

• Volunteer work needs tremendous commitment because it is unpaid and voluntary. Do not expect everyone to have equal levels of commitment. Make allowances. Give the team goalposts they will meet, not what I think they should meet.
• Guard against people who, saying they’re my well-wishers, try to dissuade me from doing what I think is right. Especially against people who dissuade me because the perceived “returns” are non-existent. Develop a sense of detachment even while being attached. Hmm, where’s my Gita?
• Teams, especially as intelligent and experienced as this one, work well when there’s transparency. Give them reasons for why things are done the way I want them done, encourage feedback, and act on suggestions I think are good..

By the end of five months, we had mined about five years’ of posts. I sensed the team was getting a bit tired. Maybe I was pushing them too much. I suggested to Guru (and he agreed) if we could bring out an interim volume – something to show the world, and something to lift my team’s spirits with.

So you have the TWIN eBook Volume 1 (~1 MB) in front of you.

To read the file:

Download the CHM file to your local system.

In Windows Explorer, select the CHM file and right-click.

Click Properties >> Unblock >> Apply.

Open the CHM file.

At the moment, the format is CHM. I know that’s non-ideal and I am still thinking…In my next post, I’ll talk about future plans what’s next.