Engaging a group of engineers and program managers in a non-sequential ABC activity served as a warm-up, highlighting how teams often rush tasks. When participants clicked off letters, they repeatedly failed and restarted, reinforcing the value of open collaboration and laughter. The experience illustrated that effective strategy development is often neglected in deadline-driven environments. Teams that rush to ship without a plan create suboptimal products and services. A brief strategic conversation upfront could have simplified their task, emphasizing that taking time to plan can accelerate overall progress.
The warm-up activity involved the group saying the ABCs in a non-sequential order under time pressure, which fostered laughter and teamwork despite not finishing.
Teams often overlook strategy due to deadline-driven pressures, leading to ineffective products and services. Slowing down can lead to more efficient outcomes.
In most companies, the focus is solely on delivering tasks on time, which results in not taking the necessary time to plan properly beforehand.
The lesson from the warm-up activity is that a brief strategy discussion could drastically improve outcomes, mirroring the experience of the team during the activity.
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