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In my experience, but I know I am unconventional, half-organized chaos. You do need motivated, good people for that so. The chaos bit is those people figurong o
by hef19898 3y ago
In my experience, but I know I am unconventional, half-organized chaos. You do need motivated, good people for that so. The chaos bit is those people figurong out their stuff themselves, while the organized bit is szrict following up on deliverables, relevant deadlines, flexibility on not-so-relevant ones and, this is crucial, step in in to provide guidance, support decision maling and coordination between peoole and teams. If the latter means setting up a dozen 30 minute meetings between two people, the be it.
Only gets you so far so. And needs everyone being aware of customer needs and requirements.
- mjburgess 3y ago"chaos" is what relatively unproductive people, or people-at-arms-length call it. "Doing the job" is another term. I've had to remind people several times not to apologise for "causing chaos" when the outcome of this supposed chaos is that the project was successful. The purpose of your job is success, not the perception of others that their charts lacked forewarning of all the unknowables needed to successful execute anything. Chaos in many cases is just what you call the experience of looking at a chart, or a model of any kind, when you're familiar with the reality it's supposed to depict
- shandor 3y agoThis resonates so much with my experience. I think it was Jim Collins in Good to Great starting with the idea that it's super important to "get the right people on the bus...and the wrong people off the bus". Which he expanded to the idea that motivated, skillful people don't actually need that much management, and that it is the mediocre and worse performers that do.
- hef19898 3y agoOne caviat I'd like to add: what the right and wrong people are depends a lot on the bus, the destination and the driver. Otherwise, I fully agree!