Travelling together
You start with a desire for consensus.
You get there by drawing pictures whenever the conversation turns interesting. Back of the napkin, big whiteboards, scraps of paper – at every meeting you organise, over every coffee, with anyone who has a perspective that might help or an opinion they’ll share.
You find it isn’t about getting everyone on board with your plan.
It’s about building a plan that everyone’s already on board with because they helped draw it out on the blank piece of paper.
Buy-in is instant. The collective good it obvious. Wisdom squeezed from the woodwork. Benefitting from broad interventions, finding its place in the bigger picture, iterated and evolved.
Funding is easier, building the team is easier, staying on track is easier, dealing with adversity is easier.
Skippy strategy: Travelling together doesn’t mean bringing everyone on board, it means building the ship and choosing the destination together.
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