October 12, 2015

In the room

Grand

It’s pretty easy to talk a good game.

Meeting for the first time – networking maybe – some people have a tendency to aggrandise. Talking up their importance, letting you believe they played a bigger part than they did. They were the instigator of a project, they were pivotal, they made the decisions.

Most days it’s ok to take this stuff at face value. “How interesting.”

Some days – when building your team, when it counts – you have to dig deeper. “Tell me more.”

There’s a big difference between being in the room, and running it. There are benefits and learning at every seat of the table – all experience is useful and every team needs a broad range. Mine for what they actually did.

Build your team on facts.

Skippy Strategy: What was the motivation behind that decision? What pressures were you dealing with?

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Teams