Setting up what success means at the start of the project is important.
Learning that your assumptions at the start were wrong is smart.
Changing what success means when you learn through the project is wise.
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Idea fight
Ideas should stand on their own two feet.
When you let who is saying the idea count more than the idea, you have popularity contests not idea fights.
Let them fight.
The Symptom Trap
People deal with the symptom, it feel like they have done something.
If you don’t deal with the cause, the symptom keeps happening so you haven’t done anything, just wasted your time.
Timing sucks
A great idea is worthless if you can’t get the team to do it.
Instead of trying to do the whole thing, can you implement smaller pieces of it to show your skill and credibility to gain traction to implement more?
Your might be right, but ar
To The Lazy Ones!
The trouble maker in your team isn’t in opposition with you, they don’t believe in your core assumptions.
Assumptions aren’t facts and shouldn’t be a threat to your identity.
What if the trouble maker is right?
The Seven Errors You Might Be Making
A mistake isn’t a problem.
Many mistakes aren’t problems.
It is refusing to correct mistakes that creates the problem.
Updated Equations
Ability + incorrect problem = worthless
No ability + unsolvable problem = pointless
Ability + solvable problem = ego boost
Ability + challenging problem = Progress
Write It Down
Culture is ongoing, implicit, and pervasive.
If you don’t guide it where you want it to go it will go where it wants.
Express your values, live up to those values. Ask your team what they think the values are.
Interchangable parts
Brain power should be used on what to do, not how to do things.
If every part of your business has different ways to do things then staff spend less time of solving problems and more time thinking about which process to follow.
Lead by letting go
Leadership is explaining to your team what is important, and what values your team works by.
The goal is to have them be able to work independently. If they can’t work with you, then you are not leading, you are the problem.
Luke McMeeken-Ruscoe 