Many parents
With growth come the pressures of growth.
More people to manage, more suppliers to wrangle, more customers to please, more problems and processes and prospects to…
People fall in love with their own ideas. As soon as they’ve formed in their head and they’re out of their mouth or committed to a whiteboard, most people have a parental affection for their imaginings.
Which is good and bad.
Good because it means they’ll argue and advocate – so everyone can stress-test them against own ideas.
Bad because the argument – from a forceful or authoritative person or in an overwhelming fashion, or just because it was first out of the gate – can stifle other, better, stronger, smarter ideas.
The job is to get ideas on the table but treat them simply as intriguing objects – unattached to the idea-machine who put them there.
How?
Get ideas out early and in groups (brainstorm) with everyone making every idea better until everyone has a share of parental love.
Only then begin the debate.
Skippy strategy: Good ideas have many parents.
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When it goes bad, you have to sort it out.
Doesn’t matter if you were to blame, personally or corporately. Doesn’t matter. Just doesn’t.
What matters is…