Comments on: What creates breakthroughs?: A 12-second tutorial http://dharmaconsulting.com/what-creates-breakthroughs-a-12-second-tutorial Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:59:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eric http://dharmaconsulting.com/what-creates-breakthroughs-a-12-second-tutorial/comment-page-1#comment-620 Eric Fri, 08 May 2009 22:19:36 +0000 http://dharmaconsulting.com/?p=361#comment-620 "Behaving as a single unit" - there's a lot there. It included having a single mission and much more. Like really paying attention to each other and the other team. Paying such deep attention that they were able to, as you say "adjust" in such a zippy manner that it felt "effortless". They also spent a lot of time - before the game - practicing their skills. Individually and collectively. And practice is the place where they hone the balance between effort and effortless. At work there is virtually no time to "practice". What would practice look like? Thanks for your thoughtful comments. Eric “Behaving as a single unit” – there’s a lot there. It included having a single mission and much more.
Like really paying attention to each other and the other team. Paying such deep attention that they were able to, as you say “adjust” in such a zippy manner that it felt “effortless”.
They also spent a lot of time – before the game – practicing their skills. Individually and collectively. And practice is the place where they hone the balance between effort and effortless.
At work there is virtually no time to “practice”. What would practice look like?
Thanks for your thoughtful comments.
Eric

]]> By: John Langlois http://dharmaconsulting.com/what-creates-breakthroughs-a-12-second-tutorial/comment-page-1#comment-619 John Langlois Fri, 08 May 2009 22:04:13 +0000 http://dharmaconsulting.com/?p=361#comment-619 At my work, effort is a function of the clarity of our project scope. If we don't know where we are going, we tend to shotgun for answers (features/function) to improve our offerings. That expends a ton of effort while we go nowhere fast. Bill Russell and his team knew exactly where they were going as they traveled down the court together toward the opponents basket. Obstacles would appear. They would adjust with zippy passes and keep pressure and momentum moving toward that goal. You could argue that it was effortless because the entire team was behaving as a single unit with a single mission. At my work, effort is a function of the clarity of our project scope. If we don’t know where we are going, we tend to shotgun for answers (features/function) to improve our offerings. That expends a ton of effort while we go nowhere fast.

Bill Russell and his team knew exactly where they were going as they traveled down the court together toward the opponents basket.

Obstacles would appear. They would adjust with zippy passes and keep pressure and momentum moving toward that goal. You could argue that it was effortless because the entire team was behaving as a single unit with a single mission.

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