By Steve Moran
We have all had the experience of doing something that seemed like a good idea at the time and turned out to be a total disaster. An experience that Mark Twain describes like this: “There are some lessons you can learn carrying a cat by the tail that you can’t learn any other way.”
You are reading and recalling right …
Something in your past, maybe your first real job, maybe a project that blew up spectacularly, maybe a moment you still cringe about at 2 am. And yet, while it may have taken some time, you learned some important lessons from it … taking years off your learning curve. Something nobody taught you in a classroom.
And here’s the thing that bothers me about most teams: that knowledge is just sitting there. Locked inside individual people. Going nowhere.
Teams get stuck. Not because they lack talent. Not because they lack resources. They get stuck because they keep bumping into the same walls that everyone around them already figured out how to get over — they just never said so out loud.
This exercise will help unlock that wisdom for the entire team.
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