Thinking small about Big things

I was gathering data on social entrepreneurs in India, when it stuck me how these people started. All of the entrepreneurs I am studying, from Muhammad Yunus (founder of Grameen Bank) to Ilaben Mehta (founder of SEWA); all of them started small. In fact this willingness to start small has been the hallmark of most entrepreneurs who have turned this to a strength. Take the case of Michael Dell (Founder and CEO of Dell Computers); he started by selling computers from his dorm room. His problem was he did not have infrastructure, he turned this weakness to his strength by building an entire company based on assembly and logistics of pre fabricated computer components. In this age of downward bottomlines, Dell with no infrastructure is the major gainer. How does this affect us? It does here's why...
Many of us don’t undertake small tasks, thinking this is too menial or by using the oft repeated phrase kya fayda... We don’t realize all of us have to start small but think big. It is easier said than done so what do we do... We think big and don't take the small steps necessary to realize our big goals. It's the same bug facing business school education that afflicts us all...we teach students as if they are CEOs of Fortune 500 firms, and students have to unlearn and relearn from the ground up during their first jobs .... we all want to do things top down (sample this: If I was the PM, I would do this and that... these politicians are fools..., we should have fought for freedom instead of nonviolence crap... etc etc...). Just take another look at any great person's life and you will realize they all started small, took small steps and eventually reached some stage which was again leap for most of us. I remember once my mother told me..."trifles make perfection but perfection is no trifle....