Budget for the second attempt

Ambition · Little Light original

A new initiative receives enough time and money to launch once. The plan assumes the first version will teach the team something, yet every resource is committed before that lesson arrives. When reality exposes a weak assumption, revision is treated as an overrun rather than the work the experiment was designed to reveal. Ambition becomes more credible when it includes the cost of learning. Reserve time to review what happened, capacity to correct what missed, and a clear point at which the second attempt will be judged. This is not permission for endless work. It is recognition that unfamiliar problems rarely deliver their best answer on the first try. A launch proves that an idea can leave the room. The next version shows whether the organisation can listen to what happened outside it. Budget for that response before applause or disappointment spends all the attention. Give promising work enough runway to become wiser, not merely visible.

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