Where Slot B fits
If you want to make change happen, make changes. If you want people to believe the things you’re saying, show them the actions that you’ve…
It’s tempting to start the meeting in the middle of the thing. Where the details and all the arguments lie. To spend time digging into and obsessing about this little battle and explaining exactly how to position Slot B for Tab A. To focus on the minutiae.
Tempting, compelling and practical for you maybe.
Not for the rest of us.
The rest of us want to understand the context first. We want to see where Slot B fits in the scheme of things and why it’s important enough in the first place to get us all around a table to hear about it. We need to catch up with concepts before we can even think about details.
Start there; with context.
Five minutes. Two even. This is what we’re talking about. Now, let’s look at Tab A.
Skippy strategy: Before you talk about it, talk about what you’re talking about.
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