January 31, 2025

Square your efforts

Glass

Anyone who’s started on their own knows the joy, reality and danger of the one man band. The joy is perfect communication, the reality is everything takes as long as it takes one person to do it, the danger is lack of anyone to bounce against (which means lack of ideas, push back, accountability, creative spark, human interaction).

The reality and danger means we build teams so we can go do more and go faster … and take on the challenge of communications to keep everything working in harmony, or efficiently, or – even on bad days – well enough so the thing keeps moving forward.

Small teams who sit within over-hearing distance don’t need much help to stay in the same loop. For everyone else, it take effort and planning and positive intent.

For every additional team member, square your efforts to keep everyone informed.

Skippy strategy: Create comms for today’s team, not yesterday’s.

Category:
Teams