http://blog.seliger.com/2010/06/06/deadlines-are-everything-and-how-to-be-amazing/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:29:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://blog.seliger.com/2010/06/06/deadlines-are-everything-and-how-to-be-amazing/comment-page-1/#comment-35528 Thirty day deadlines favor the prepared Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:03:55 +0000 http://blog.seliger.com/?p=626#comment-35528 [...] us, this sucks, since we want to help our clients get funded. But we’re also unusual because we always hit our deadlines; part of the reason we can always hit deadlines is because we decline work if we can’t finish [...] [...] us, this sucks, since we want to help our clients get funded. But we’re also unusual because we always hit our deadlines; part of the reason we can always hit deadlines is because we decline work if we can’t finish [...]

]]> http://blog.seliger.com/2010/06/06/deadlines-are-everything-and-how-to-be-amazing/comment-page-1/#comment-35168 National Institute of Health (NIH) Grant Writers: An Endangered Species or Hidden Like Hobbits? Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:14:40 +0000 http://blog.seliger.com/?p=626#comment-35168 [...] The proposal got funded, even though we’d never written a Smart Grid proposal before—and neither had anyone else. How’d we do it? Through the same means described in How to Write About Something You Know Nothing About: It’s Easy, Just Imagine a Can Opener, which explains how a generalist learns to write a proposal for unfamiliar programs (and remember: all programs are unfamiliar when they first appear; this was certainly true for Smart Grid applicants). The same principles apply to all proposals; the trick is finding someone who understands and can implement those principles on a deadline. [...] [...] The proposal got funded, even though we’d never written a Smart Grid proposal before—and neither had anyone else. How’d we do it? Through the same means described in How to Write About Something You Know Nothing About: It’s Easy, Just Imagine a Can Opener, which explains how a generalist learns to write a proposal for unfamiliar programs (and remember: all programs are unfamiliar when they first appear; this was certainly true for Smart Grid applicants). The same principles apply to all proposals; the trick is finding someone who understands and can implement those principles on a deadline. [...]

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