Team control and coordination is incredibly important when you don’t know if you can solve a problem. Inherently, if you don’t know if there’s a solution for y

Team control and coordination is incredibly important when you don’t know if you can solve a problem. Inherently, if you don’t know if there’s a solution for your problem, your research will be very wide and your teams ability to adapt quickly to new directions is paramount. As the leader, you may need to shut down directions of inquiry often. Every situation where “I wish I had pulled the plug on that sooner…” wasted time and effort. Then you have to be willing to pull the plug for good. Whether you’re an employee or an external advisor, it’s always difficult to justify time and expense with no solution, but wasted/higher time and expense is worse. This also applies to the individual, you still have to fight your own internal desire to push something to conclusion.