Things you don’t know
Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could give them a motivation injection.
But it doesn’t exist, so we can’t.
We can try making speeches, invent some clever incentive…
Whatever you’re considering – a new project, a new product, a new process, and new production process, and new product project – a new anything. The first step is to get out of your office and talk to the people who matter.
Who matters? Anyone and everyone involved in implementation, or selling, or buying or who have any influence at all over the success of failure of the thing.
The reason?
They know and think things you don’t know.
They have opinions and perspectives and experiences. They’ll add value to the thinking, bring it in to focus, and make you smarter this evening than you were this morning.
They’re the difference between a pet project and something that changes the world, between long nights spent in the dark guessing at what you’re doing and a sharp objective with clear benefits for people who care about the outcome.
Skippy strategy: Take the step.
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