I've been consulting with companies in a lot of different industries, using different technologies, and different strategies to achieve their goals. The odd thing is, no matter the industry, technology, or strategies I saw the same pattern occur, over, and over again.
Have you ever seen something like this in your world?
People have a lot of great ideas...almost too many...
a leaders says he's got the best idea and gathers everyone...
he says the idea should be done very quickly...
teams get together and head out to hit their launch date...
they speed away from each other...
the idea gets money...
teams stop to work on idea but no one knows what it means...
they don't ask because everyone seems to be fine...
the leader talks about better use of resources...
and how many people are waiting to see his prototypes...
teams head back to hit the deadline with something, anything...
the launch date is a time bomb...
the crash takes everything out of commission...
new teams are brought in to find out what happened...
a lot of people get fired...
two years later a new leader gathers everyone with a big idea...