For anything that passes for creative work there’s no one way to do the job.

Actually, there are more ways than there are people to take them.

Actually, there are more than ten ways for each person. Or a hundred.

So actually, who cares about the method as long as it sits within the value system you’ve agreed to (like legal, generous, honest, skippy, fast, thoughtful) and takes us where we need to go?

The only thing we should care about is progress towards agreed goals. Outside of that, autonomy. Everything that takes us there, agency.

Notice the should.

What often happens is top down. An imposition. That stifles creativity. That gets in the way with delays and approvals. And, No, not like that, like this.

Fuggeddabowdit.

Agree the goals, help them think, then get out of the way.

Skippy strategy: Help them think, don’t stop them thinking.