One snowball
After any half decent bun-fight everyone involved has a partial view of what just happened. Whatever what actually said, it’s likely that Bill’s view will be…
It’s so tempting. To pursue multiple options with equal attention, to spread our bets, to hedge choice A with choice B – playing both hands – in the hope that if one doesn’t pay off, the other surely will. That we’ll look more attractive because we’re broader and we’ll be safer because we’ve spread our risk. And a bonus: we’ll keep everybody happy as they pursue their personal preferences – each to their own technology, market, location, option.
It might work … it’s possible that from the outside, our customer will appreciate the generalist approach, that rolling two snowballs in different fields will somehow make more sense than rolling them in one … probably not though.
If you operate in any field that benefits from any kind of snowball effect, roll your snowballs one at a time. Make a choice, and make it work.
Skippy strategy: For most progress … one snowball at a time.
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Shhh. Some people actually enjoy meetings.
Not all of the time.
Not the round-robin update meetings which are like a creeping death waiting for your turn to talk…