Lessons you can learn from the funnel

Looking at the funnel the same we use it in daily life, we can see a splendid mechanism showing how things may happen in life

• At the top, the wide open end may represent our dreams, ambition, visions and opportunities that we get in our lives.  They can be as open and as wild as they may happen to be
• Both sides of the funnel with their sloping edges going inside and below represent our capabilities and limitations (constraints) that will together determine what is possible and what is not
• The lower (narrow) end of the funnel may represent a multi-level priority system that sequences things that are possible into priories for execution

Another lesson from this funnel that we can learn and observe is that regardless how big and open the top end can be, it is the actual capabilities and limitations that determine at the end what is possible and what is not.

Another lesson that we can learn in many different fields is that getting more out of this funnel depends very much on pushing the sides apart to widen the bottom narrow-end of the tunnel.  This means that we need to increase our capabilities and reduce our limitations to increase the overall capacity of what we can do.

• One interesting application is the capacity building in executional organizations (Program Management Office, service centers, customer care, ... ) where increasing incoming requests will only make things worse if we cannot increase the overall capacity based on the capabilities and limitations that these entities operate within.
• Increasing funding, working budgets, ... etc at the top will not -once again- produce any tangible benefits as seen by the beneficiaries and stakeholders looking at what really gets executed out of the funnel 

I hope this lesson is good enough to learn from