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I’m redefining ‘Scope Creep’ as ‘Scope Stretch’, and for good reason.
There’s a proverb about a young man walking down the street. He comes across an older man sitting on his porch, with a dog lying next to him, whining in pain. The young man asks the dog’s owner ‘What’s wrong with your dog?’. The owner replies ‘He’s lying on a nail’. The man asks ‘Lying on a nail? Why doesn’t he move?’. The owner replies ‘Because it’s not hurting bad enough'.
I’m a firm believer that everyone comes to work to do a great job - initially anyway. So why do businesses have poor performers? Likewise, why do team members find it difficult to deal with conflict in the workplace; that difficult client or demanding boss?
To get answers to these questions we need to look beneath the surface. Go beyond actions and behaviour and look to the drivers of...