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What to do with the money and the vision?
Hey y'all. I need your help, and in you contributing to this discussion, I hope it helps others. Do you know of any books (or other resources) that help one learn the skill(s) involved in taking a vision and a budget and making into a reality? I've been thinking about how there are two types of jobs (in the broader sense of the word). **Type 1** is a job where you are told what to do. You do not have much or any say. You don't have a budget of resources to exercise. You don't have input on the vision (typically). It's a technical role. Examples are an engineer; a service worker; etc. **Type 2** is a job where you have a budget and a vision, and you are expected to make it a reality. Examples being entrepreneurship; director or above level work; leading a nonprofit; leading a committee. (*Has anyone come across a terminology for these two types of workloads?*) Type 2 jobs and the skills that go with it are what are important to us entrepreneurs. It is the development of the skillset that pertains to this kind of work that we need to improve. For context, I have a day job, I have a small business where from time to time I hire contractors, and I am part of a few nonprofits. I want to gain experience in the Type 2 kind of work, but in my day job, with ten years in the industry, I have never been given the opportunity to strategize and exercise resource allocation or people management. Side note: I've noticed is that books on management are too literal, too to-the-point, and leadership books are akin to mentality-improvement books in the self-help genre—that is, they are more about guiding principles than examples or actionable steps or best practices. (*Share books that contradict me, please*). When it comes to leadership, I'm more interested in "How to get people to do things for you" instead of "Leaders eat last." I'm looking for a book(s) either follows a character through a story of creating an organization or gives specific examples — something similar to The Phoenix Project. Picture, I have a million dollars, and I have a vision for a company or a nonprofit, now what? I know I need to build some teams, but I don't know what I don't know. I understand that it's an amorphous question and the only answer is "It depends," but that's why I think if there was a resource that details the process (and ideally, the thought process), it would be of great help for all of us. The reason for this post is, I'm at a loss. I realized that I've hit a wall in my business, nonprofits, and profession. The wall is that I don't have the skills necessary to have the confidence to propose that I lead a committee that I know will help the company/nonprofit. I struggle with delegating in my business. I don't want to volunteer to run a committee in the nonprofit because I'm afraid I won't be able to deliver on the promise because I can't grasp how to plan out the process, build the teams, and manage the project. I don't have the confidence apply for management roles because of this mental hang-up. This admit that this is a heady, and odd request but I hope you can entertain this discussion, as I think they'll be beneficial to anyone who comes upon this thread now and in the future.5
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