when you’re worried you’re forgetting something

…ask yourself: If we weren’t us, but instead just a generically competent org that did something else and that generic org had to drop everything and hit the same goal we have on a short timeline … if they had to do that, what would they do? Look at the list of things they would do, and then carry that list into your context. 

More likely than not:

• You’ll notice that you’ve done a lot of the things on the list (woohoo!).

• There will be other things on that list, things the generic org would need to do to get up to speed, that you will have missed that you’ll have to do.

• Of those missed items, you can then prioritize — which ones are key for your team in this moment?

(Eric’s recent advice to cosplay is an inside-out version of this: in cosplay, you’re deliberately adopting a specific perspective with particular expertise. Here, you’re pausing/erasing your own specific expertise to mine for new things to do)

-ben