In every process, delivery, action plan, etc – there are critical gaps, holes that exist that can break everything – they are that critical to the entire process. At the same time, they are the greatest opportunities and bang for our buck to make things work and fix problems. Find the gaps, fix the holes.
Do you know people who jump into a problem get so many accolades, thanks, handshakes (elbows), congratulations, and everything else? It’s not because they knew how to solve the problem. It’s not because they actually solved the problem. It’s not because they were the best leader or coder or anything. It’s because they jumped in. They took that step that no one else was willing to take and did it. That leapt and lead.
The Remote Engine is you, your team, and everything else that helps power it. It only works when all cylinders are running and right now we are all running low. Throughout this great experiment, we have probably not invested as much in maintenance as we should have. Look it happens – beating yourself up about it isn’t going to make it any better. But not doing anything about it, for you or your team, now…
If you don’t know what you are measuring, you will never know how you are doing. Once you know what you want to measure, you have to accept that in the first X collection periods the data is going to be horrible, downright horrific. Because you have never collected it before. Because you have never analyzed it before. If you give up looking at it, you will be no better off from where you started…
If you aren’t going to do the work that comes with the idea. Then don’t propose the idea. You don’t have to do all the work, but you have to get it started, you have to kick it off, you have to lead it beyond an initial meeting. That first piece of work, that threat of work, is what holds so many ideas back from becoming the start of something great.