Look Ahead Remove Obstacles
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by Dan Coughlin
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ou and your team are on a quest. You are trying to fulfill some meaningful purpose and achieve some important objectives. On this journey there will be obstacles that will try their very best to stop you and prevent you from ever fulfilling that purpose and achieving those outcomes. This article focuses on what you can do regarding three types of obstacles: human dynamics, logistics and the unforeseen.
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Human Dynamics and the Importance of Orchestration If you announce a new way of doing something or a new product or service that you want your company to sell, it could be embraced by your employees, suppliers and customers, or it could be undermined by them.
A lot of the challenge is in the way you communicate the new item. • Who are the key individuals you need to get on board before you announce it to everyone else? • What is the order in which you need to talk with these key individuals?
• What do you need them to support and champion to other people? Answering these three questions is what I’m calling orchestration, and orchestration is critically important. Take the time to write down your answers to those questions and then follow your plan. Don’t fall into the temptation of telling everyone about the new thing until you have worked your way through your plan of who to talk with and in what order to talk with
