| ▲ | ChrisMarshallNY a day ago | |
I often mention that I worked for a storied Japanese company. It was the majority of my career. They used to have a lot of meetings. One of those meetings was called a “Design Review” meeting, or “DR.” This was a big meeting, involving multiple departments, and usually involved hard-bitten, intelligent, and frequently, curmudgeonly, engineers, scientists, and managers. It was their job to shoot holes in your proposal. Making a presentation to a DR was a stressful thing, but it was also a highly effective forge. What came out of the meeting, was a robust, achievable project, with a solid plan, funding, and “on the record” support from all the teams involved. The idea would have real “legs.” When you ask others to support your idea, you had damn well better expect them to be skeptical, and it’s a mistake to think of their skepticism as opposition. They often want to help you to make it happen, and anticipating problems, is a very important part of that. | ||