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Here is a fun prioritization exercise. Some have described it as a Jedi mind trick. It is very simple but it plays with people’s head in a good way. It draws heavily from Joshua Arnold's work on cost of delay, particularly this article on qualitative cost of delay

Quick tip. When you tell a team to "get creative," let me translate what your team hears: You aren't being creative We're not giving you additional help or budget But we still expect the same (or better) outcomes The tough thing here is all of these may be true. Maybe the team isn't exploring creative ways to solve the problem with limited resources, and perhaps you believe it is possible to achieve equal or better outcomes despite the constraints. The challenge is that you aren't saying that.

Sunday coffee thoughts. At my day job, I have been working on a proposal to redesign how we do something. To prepare for the questions I exp

Here’s a list of potentially helpful questions (and multiple-choice answers) to help you explore the ideas, strategies, opportunities, problems, bets, initiatives, and projects on your roadmap. Some notes: Embrace uncertainty. Saying “I don’t know” is a great outcome.