Look for quicksand
To keep up with your ambition, with customers, with the turning world, with that nagging feeling that you have to go hard so you don’t have…
Sometimes the answer presents itself. If we do this, and this, and this … ta da! … everything will be good. Fifteen minutes of thought turns into fifteen hours or days or weeks or work. And sometimes, sometimes that presentable looking answer was pretty much on the money. You had to wriggle a bit, tidy things up around the edges, but yeah, the ta da! moment really came through.
Some other times, (most times?), it doesn’t. That immediate answer is a red herring that chews through the cables. Wasted effort. It couldn’t work and was never going to work.
Treat the ta da! as a candidate solution. Don’t jump straight in. Turn it over for a while, investigate, look for quicksand, do the research.
If the candidate was a good fit, the process will add value anyway. And if was a fish, you’re saved.
Skippy strategy: The actual answer always presents itself, eventually.
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