From the course: Leading Strategically
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Implementing an option
- My undergraduate students are notorious for taking great care on the first steps of a project only to lose it at the end. I think of one group in particular, that on this project they really took their time understanding exactly what I was asking for. They went through and established great criteria for choosing a topic. Then they came up with a ton of ideas and limited those to about five. Then they made two key mistakes. They fell in love with one of the options that didn't even meet the initial criteria they'd established and from there, they just went their own individual ways without a clear plan in place as to what to do. Thankfully, I caught their problems early enough to realign them but I've seen this all too often in the workplace. And in those cases, there's no professor to catch the problem. To keep yourself from making the same mistakes as my undergrads, here are a few important steps to take as you…
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