If you don’t get it
Chaos can be fun.
Everyone running around, lots of energy, creativity and innovation popping right out of a cul de sac. It has it’s down sides.…
Sometimes, you just don’t get it.
When the marketing guy’s explaining the nonsensical campaign. When the technologist is jumping around some idea that it doesn’t sound like they understand any better than you. When the project manager sets out the steps in a way that might mean something to someone but not to you.
So call it.
Say it.
I don’t get it.
Ask some why questions.
Keep mining until you do get it.
Maybe it’s your problem, in which case, they’ll set you straight and off you go.
Maybe it’s their problem. Maybe they can’t explain it because they don’t understand it themselves, or their thinking is weak, or there is no sense, or it’s all very kinda-sorta.
No downside risk: it toughens and tightens and improves communications; or it folds under pressure (which means blushes today but save bigger ones tomorrow).
Skippy strategy: If you don’t get it, say it.
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