If you push
You’ve made the decision. It’s a done deal. Except it isn’t done. There’s all the doing still to do. One foot in front of the next,…
If you push, and things happen, and then you stop pushing. That’s the test.
If things keep happening, it means everyone sees the importance, they get it, and they accept responsibility for getting it done. Maybe you can throttle back on the formality of it, maybe you can reduce update meetings and heartbeat reporting by a half. Maybe.
If it stops happening, it means they’re not bought in and the only thing that keeps it happening is that you keep pushing to make sure it does. No maybe’s now. Time to put more context into it – why it’s important in the first place, why you care so much, what happens with the thing in place and the downstream impact when it isn’t.
It’s probably not that they don’t care, it’s probably that they don’t know why they should.
Skippy strategy: Let them know why you care, and they should too.
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Every day, all day, we’re switched into communication mode. At the coffee shop, in the meeting, writing the email, around the water cooler. Even three hours…