You left them
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…
Without anyone noticing, without announcements grand or small, without it being acknowledged or talked about as a thing, the brief changed.
We were doing one thing having planned it this way, and then the world turned and everything shifted and we started doing another thing and replanning on the fly.
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 them behind.
You turned a corner and their momentum kept them moving in a straight(ish) line in the dark. They were contributing to the whole, and now 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 in real time and on track.
Skippy strategy: Everyone who needs to knows, needs to know.
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Teams
How many projects?
How much can you achieve?
How much can we, they achieve?
There’s a theoretical, perfect maximum.
Take from that the lost time from life, and from…