Once you accept that you'll always waste a little work, you'll unlock way better outcomes.
- Once you accept that you'll always waste a little work, you'll unlock way better outcomes.
- Organization leaders spend so much time trying to "avoid wasted work."
- Going from 20% wasted work to 10% wasted work requires 10x the effort.
- You need to create legibility, which gets fractally more expensive as you go into the details.
- Especially in a fast-moving organization!
- Also, it will likely be faux clarity that kills the aliveness in the system.
- Especially in any kind of domain that isn't crystal clear and well known.
- Some portion of that "wasted effort", especially if the team is high-autonomy people who are acting like owners and expect to be sitting in the same seat in two years, will actually be acorns.
- That is, seeds of greatness that just haven't grown yet.
- Instead of making sure no wasted work happens, how do you make sure that great things are happening?