The Mind Reading Myth
One of the greatest challenges that we struggle with as Entrepreneurs (and something I’ve had to learn a few hard lessons from over the decades) is how to effectively transfer ideas over to my team. All too often we have these amazing ideas that we want to execute… Oftentimes these amazing ideas have absolutely nothing to do with the long-term goal and strategy…They are often short-sighted and simply satisfy a need in the short-term. We’re running a million miles a minute, juggling multiple priorities, and most times we simply throw out our ideas with the least amount of explanation or detail and assume our team has exactly what they need to execute what we envision in our mind. We also assume they know where it fits into the overall picture. They put all their effort into giving us exactly what we communicated that we wanted. And then we see it. Our reaction of “This is not what I asked for” immediately produces a look of bewilderment and disappointment upon their faces