Solving the underpants gnomes pitfall
May 20, 2016
I have a problem; I often have a hard time connecting our vision and overarching goals to the items that we are actually working on. I want to be able to pick up anything we do and understand why we are doing this now and how it will take us closer to our goal.
I’ve blogged about this before and in my time in Indonesia I even thought I had a great way of uncovering what those high-flying goals really means, by simply asking this question:
What can we measure to see progress to that goal?
But it turns out, understandably once I think about it, that question is too hard. The gap between the vision and the work is quite simply too big.
To me often the connection between vision and our work reminds me a lot of the business of the underpants gnomes in South...