Leadership Bottlenecks
This week, we’ve been renovating new space and moving our offices. Pulling off projects requires effective marshaling of people and resources. If you are out ahead of the project, you’ll encounter bottlenecks which eat up time, resources, and frustrate people, who are ultimately your greatest resource.
When we first began doing setup in the theater, we would have 10 guys show up at 6:30 AM to setup. It was a major league drag when the trailer would show up at 6:45 AM. Ultimately, the 15 minute bottleneck had a price of 2.5 man hours in addition to 10 high-output volunteers now becoming 10 frustrated guys who will think twice about being on time next time.
In leadership as your organization grows or as you encounter activity spikes, the bottlenecks that have always been around get exposed. In response, a good leader will:
- root out bottlenecks,
- challenge the people who cause them,
- rework systems that cause individuals to be the bottleneck, and ultimately
- examine the skill sets of the guy in charge (in the case of Life Pointe, me)
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