Yank the cord
With everything going on, with the joy of dealing with the day to day, with all the logistics and customers and finance issues, with all the…
There are problems and then there are difficult problems. When it’s a problem, you put the time in, gather some colleagues and dates, apply some smarts, take some actions and move on to the next thing. When it’s a difficult problem, it’s the same recipe but everyone knows to set expectations and make sure there’s move of every resource and as much wriggle room as possible – and everything moves to the right.
The problems really start when a mistake a difficult problem for the regular kind.
It takes longer, you need different people, other date, a special kind of smart, yet more time, yet more data – and all the while everyone’s getting frustrated because expectations weren’t set. When it happens you have two choices: nibble it along accepting the frustrations, or yank the cord to reset the dial towards difficult.
Skippy strategy: Work out which kind of problem you’re solving.
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