This is one of the best emails I've ever gotten:
Subject: "So what's next"
As we near the GoLive – you are probably wondering, so what’s next for our great team? I’d like to hear from each of you – what do you think we should be working on starting next week? Do you want a change – what would you like to do?
It came from the project team leader.
Leadership indeed... giving the team a chance to have a voice in both what the team does and what each of us gets to work on.
So what did you tell him, O' bricoleur-in-chief?
Posted by: fouro | April 25, 2006 at 11:47 AM
Fouro,
Well, it started off by stating my desire to drink more wine and watch more Oprah. It ended with the something about the team buying me wine and leaving me alone from 3-4 each day so I could watch Oprah in peace. LOL!
Seriously, the core part of my reply was two-fold; one, we need to continue our quest to better understand our users and, two, that we need to get better at embracing change.
Jon
Posted by: Jon Strande | April 26, 2006 at 06:22 AM
Well, often "understandIng" only comes when an entity is willing to set aside old presumptions in the face of new realities--and without malice. And change is only embraced if it's viewed, not as "change," but merely as the unrolling of the natural course of events--and without fear. There's some harmonic convergence tucked in there somewhere. Has to be.
Posted by: fouro | April 26, 2006 at 10:14 AM