escaping "rapid rise sudden fall" fate – when developing “big things”
Konstantinos Konstantinidis, M.D., Ph.D.
Director - ExCtu - addressing the Health Tourism Sector "Builder Class" (a.k.a. the "growth makers" and “developers”) by providing the infrastructure supporting economic activity and enabling the system to function
…the slow architecture approach
To illustrate this article (chosen in an ironic sense), on escaping the "rapid rise sudden fall" fate – when developing “big things” – by adopting and implementing the “slow architecture” approach, I used the front cover of the book titled “Big Things F@$t”, (whose “thesis” I disagree with), by Jose Corella and Marcus Dimbleby, a paperback edition of which one can buy for $17.99, through Amazon (? https://www.amazon.com/Big-Things-leaders-breakthrough-performance/dp/B0CQW7LPTJ ?).
When it comes to Contemporary Health Tourism, without it being a manifestation of arrogance or a symptom of megalomania, the adjective “big” appears on a number of instances (and features in the title of several LinkedIn articles and posts).
And, the phrase “big things” appears in the titles of books I have (previously) used to illustrate articles and posts:
To justify the use of the term and phrase (with regards to Contemporary Health Tourism), I start by a partial listing of what it can mean - and the contexts it is used in:
Consequently, by definition alone, Contemporary Health Tourism (a.k.a. – and symbolized by – ht8) is indisputably a “big thing”.
Then, I remind that Contemporary Health Tourism has been designed for “organic growth” (bigger pie – more pies - implying a shift from “small” to “big” -? https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/expanded-industry-address-broader-market-constantinides-m-d-ph-d-/? ).
And, I have claimed that if an undertaking doesn’t frighten you (and keep you awake at night) it's not big enough (? https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/those-know-understand-konstantinos-konstantinidis-m-d-ph-d--n7wzf/? ).
Having said all this, for me, the French “folie de grandeur” idiom (that translates literally to "madness of greatness"), serves as a caveat (an admonition).
The book I used (chosen in an ironic sense) to illustrate this article, claims to be a field manual for “leaders” looking to facilitate “big things fast” – something I have cautioned against.
For example, in one article, I champion the slow architecture approach to “getting big things done” – in order to escape "rapid rise sudden fall" fate (? https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/short-life-shooting-stars-konstantinos-konstantinidis-m-d-ph-d--3h3yc/? ).