If it fits
Once upon a time, way back when, some bright spark designed it this way. It was set up so Tab A could only find its way…
If it fits in a spreadsheet, build the spreadsheet.
If it’s time to write the web page, write the web page.
If what you need is a white paper, knock out that white paper.
If the best way to explain is a slide deck, craft that deck.
If a picture is worth those thousand words, find someone to draw the picture.
If the reason you’re not making something clear is because it’s hard, or because of lack of agreement, or because everything is muddy, then the best way forward is to knuckle down and get it done anyway. Stand around a whiteboard, start the process, encourage the debate, argue until clarity emerges – even at the conceptual level. Then work the problem, find the through-line, craft it into shape and share it wherever it needs to be shared.
Skippy strategy: Make things clearer today, and make them clearer tomorrow.
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Focus
It’s time, right now, to take a break. To put down the email and the spreadsheet and the pitch deck and the spec sheet, to close…