A shared map beats a brilliant navigator nobody can understand.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

A plan nobody else can follow is only a plan inside your head. Brilliance that cannot be shared leaves everybody depending on you being present and awake, and the moment you are not, the group stops. Something simpler that everyone understands beats it, because it keeps working while you are at work, asleep or wrong.

Take whatever you are carrying in your head and write the simple version somewhere the team can see it. Ask somebody to read it back and explain it. If they cannot, that is yours to fix rather than theirs.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Does everyone around you know the plan, or only you?

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