The brief changed
Let’s agree not to compromise.
Let’s say that when we’re looking for the next member of the team, we hold out and hold out and hold out…
Without anyone noticing, without any announcements grand or small, without it being acknowledged or talked about as a thing, the brief changed. We were doing one thing, we planned it this way, and then the world turned and everything shifted and we started doing another thing and planning it a different way.
In a team of one, that’s fine. If everyone’s lives inside each others pockets and thoughts, that’s fine too. Every other time, you left people behind. You left them behind and turned a corner and they kept moving in a straight(ish) line in the dark. They were contributing to the whole, and not they’re off on a tangent – not through a fault of their own, but through the fault of omission. Yours.
Talk about it. Check in. Talk some more. Check in again. Keep everyone together on track.
Skippy strategy: Everyone who needs to knows, needs to know.
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With inappropriate behaviour, the worst thing you can do is let it slide. Next worst, go off half cocked.