Knee-jerk thinking
When you don’t know how to do a thing and there’s only you to do it, there’s an overhead.
You have to find enough time and…
Any time you look back at a project it’s tempting or easy to put a rosy glow across the thing, or cast a dark shadow. It all went swimmingly or it was misery from one end to the other. We remember the highlights and lowlights and not so much of the colour in between.
Optimists and sugar fanatics will sell the whole thing as a positive. They’ll remember the good times and the right decisions, forgetting the tough calls, the blind alleys and miscommunications.
Corridor pessimists and water-cooler cynics live on the dark side. Their recall will be full of wasted resources and lost weeks, forgetting the ah-ha moments and those beautiful days when Tab A slotted oh so neatly into Slot B.
Your job – reality. Scraping beneath the knee-jerk thinking and exposing the signal from the noise.
Skippy strategy: Not the extremes, but including the extremes.
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