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Vic Williams Quick Facts
My forte is in the agile development, or entrepreneur, or new edge. Where we innovate and make things go. Part of that adapting to reality and to changes. The agile pattern does a select set of first most important things, then shows them to the client, asap. Fast feedback, then reviews the learnings. Repeats with a new select set. Do a little bit, show, learn, improve. So we success faster and fail faster. Failures are teachings.
I coach. It can be a startup or agile changes or personal/life coaching. Your best yields come with real changes, not polishing existing stuff. Polishing is doing the same and expecting different. In corporate terms, many orgs announce something then skate across the top instead of really digging in and doing.
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I'm a China hand. I've visited over 34 big Chinese cities over four years, by bus and train, so I saw things and other places along the way. I've done a LOT more business and things with Chinese in China than I have with Westerners.
The Chinese education and training market is hot, and concentrated in the bigger cities.
Something that intrigues and helps and has a dollop of ESL has good chances in China.
Whatever you do in China has to have a Chinese partner.
Going South, Nanning is now the ex-officio centre for ASEAN, and I would look at basing in Singapore or Vietnam, depending.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Vic Williams
Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. - George Bernard Shaw
Getting Started With Vic Williams
Examples:
First your entrepreneurial start-up company needs to develop stuff in close contact with its clients to ensure that its doing the right stuff. Faster is better. It wants to develop the most important stuff first, and get a minimally useful version of its product in use and sold to customers ASAP. Done well, it swarms the product development as much as possible, people do things together and at the same time, learning together and shortening the development time. The product is developed, grown in close contact with a user group who are evaluating, testing, suggesting, and buying – improving the whole process. People often get want they need instead of what they wanted, and appreciate that.
Second, your agile development team takes a basic product vision and does the 'first most important' bits first. In small fast cycles, say a week long. It shows the results to the client at the end of the cycle. The team takes client feedback as learnings and adjustments, while it does the next week's 'first most important' stuff. The program develops a spiral learning-by-doing cycle.
Third, a natural team just gets in there and does the job. Ants swarm things. In comparison, the average human “team” isn't, it's just a group. All too often it works like a factory instead of a team. Person A hands his finished bit to person B who does her bit, and hands the results to person C, who finds problems and ignores them because arguments happen when bits are handed back. Human teams that focus, preferably in a common team room, learn about themselves and their workings and can mesh. They form a web of interactions among themselves and their workings. They can create things faster, better, and cheaper. Often by simply not doing some things proven unnecessary, linked to learning more effectively as they go.
Fourth, you have a personal development matter, say leadership, public speaking, maintaining buoyant optimism, or you need to be able to handle crises. We look for the first most important part, and work on it. There are apt materials for each of these listed in the Catalog – Resource area. We do a bit, test it against reality, learn, review, and do more. Most learnings are best repeated many times. It's better, actually faster and more effective, to skillfully read a book fast some times than to slowly trundle through it once. We follow that habit and success forming pattern.
All the examples share a success pattern, that we can follow for any project.
If all else fails, go to www.windwaterwine.com and poke about.
Contacting Vic Williams
My main web site is http://www.windwaterwine.com
If you go there, then browse, don't just look at one page, puke, and leave. Do it twice, or more.
My main email addy is vic@windwaterwine.com
If you google on "windwaterwine" you'll find other stuff about me. Hopefully I bribed (cough) managed to smother the bad stuff.
Phone number. I use an Ericsson W35 rocket hub. So my web access and my phone number go through a nifty portable wireless hub connection. I can unplug, wander over to Starbucks, plug-in and have my 'landline' phone number in service. And web access, and remote printing to it. I can even add a battery so the hub/phone stays up through power failures. Ok, ok 604-657-9595.
It's good for small business types, should you ever meet one. <g>
