Timing the opportunity

There is an old saying that time and tide wait for no body! We also say time is money. We are familiar with maxim "be on the right place at the right time". Does this mean opportunity is a function of time? Or opportunity is a combination of both time and talent?

In our world we derive these philosophy by eyeing on the success of some successful people. I was blessed to be the part of an interview where the interviewer explained to me that we needed centuries to built a robust empire such as Tatas and Birlas, then we could built this in one's life time like Late Shri D.B. Ambani, and then in a decade like Bharti and then in a couple of years such as Facebook, Snapdeal etc.

The way we are responding to time is amazing! The speed with which we are traveling is dwarfing all trends and past experiences. We do not know what will be our next destination. We do not know if we can transfer the "mass" with that speed. Few decades back my father used to tell me to buy postcard for communication and he was always making decision to use between an envelop and postcard due to cost differential of 10 paisa! Today we can communicate or even broadcast our communication without any paisa! 

We are transferring goods and services with tremendous speed,we are ensuring quality of products and consuming "Dates from Saudi", "Olives from Italy", "Tea from India", "Apples from Fiji and what not. We are aspiring to consume the best products produced by nature and best products produced by the intervention of mankind.

Are we aspiring to be the best! My answer in yes.If we would not have aspired for the best we would not have delivered best products at the best speed. We would not have created best business houses to make money and help building nations. So can we say today opportunity means time. Less time and more delivery. Targets set by our predecessors needs to be challenged, needs to be improved. New ideas needs to be nurtured and put to action. Can we create ideas or it is a function of accident or incidence. Does it occur to our mind on the happening or not happening of certain events or we can plan or implement ideas? To be in the right time at the right place is luck or it happens by design.

I very strongly feel that a prepared person will have better ideas, he has the better chances of grabbing the ideas, his ability to action his ideas will be faster and most certainly faster implementation is the key to embrace the opportunity.

We need to learn more and more innovative ways to achieve speed with lesser cost and better quality. To me opportunity is synonymous to innovation, speed, quality and cost and hence instead of timing it we need to achieve the opportunity.