Whenever we work on driving change within an organization, we will run into situations where things feels stuck or broken. Everyone was bought in to the promise of the change – but now we’re stuck and unable to make progress.
Every experienced operator knows that is normal. There is generally no shortage of possible ideas – the challenge is finding the one that actually works despite all the constraints.
And the more consequential the decision, the more the constraints (and the number of people who remind you of the constraints).
The key, in these situations, is to get the core group of stakeholders together with one goal – to agree on why things are broken / why we’re stuck.
No expectation on getting to a solution. Let’s just align on the problem we’re solving.
That ends up being the most important thing we can do to get unstuck.
