Here’s me looking unruffled while approximately 400 humans thrash around behind me.
I don’t know if it’s actually the world’s largest.
But I respect the audacity of the claim.
That’s the energy we want. ๐
This morning was more gentle.
Slightly less Hyrox.
Slightly more “locate the kids and various nieces and nephews in a wave pool the size of a small country.”
Spoiler: they are fine. ๐๐ป
They are always fine.
(Tho the teenage twin sprogs have decided they’re too old for splashing and went bouldering and bowling with other cousins – and their dad, their personal walking atm machine). ๐ฒ ๐ฐ ๐คจ
Anyway much like your project team – they are largely self-organising when you stop micromanaging the waves.
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And here I stand.
Hair wet.
Sunglasses on.
Looking cool. ๐๐๐ป
Hundreds of people behind me in various states of survival.
This is not chaos.
This is a Stakeholder Landscape.
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๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐๐ป๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐บ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐น๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐บ? ๐ง
You need to make peace with the fact that you cannot control the waves.
You can only control your board. โ๏ธ
That’s the Stakeholder Management Chess Grandmaster level you need to get to.
And whether you remembered to put sunscreen on your ears. ๐ ๐
(I did not. We don’t talk about the ears.)
๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ, ๐ธ๐ป๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ? ๐
That’s what happens when you’ve been in enough wave pools, metaphorical and literal, to know that the wave always passes when you know how to actively manage the project.
The blockers always resolve. Ish.
The person who said “this’ll only take two weeks” will eventually stop saying that.
(Of course only with the right project-managey nudge in the right direction) ๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป
๐ฌ๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐ป๐ด๐น๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ?
Put them on. ๐
Not because you can’t see – but because sometimes the most powerful thing you can do in a crisis is *look like you’ve seen worse.*
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And that you know *exactly what you’re doing.*
(Confidence is a high scrabble pointer word in the world of professional presence). ๐ค๐ป
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The pool claims to be the world’s largest.
Unverified.
Possibly aspirational.
But aren’t the best project plans the same?
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