Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Sometimes we should assign one person. We already know that, so why don’t we do it?

There is some old cliche about

too many cooks in the kitchen

or too many cooks stirring the pot or something. There is a a current cliche about

too many people in the room

I head the one about too many people just last week at work.

Now we do out of cliche and into management. There are many tasks where a group of people can reach a consensus on a topic. They express the consensus in bullets. Then the group leaves the room and leaves on writer or creator or artist to create the product.

Looking back at the above cliches, it is evident that we know this. So I have to ask,

Why don’t we leave the room and let the one person work?

Now I come to the bad part of this post. We won’t leave the room because we think we are the exception. We won’t succumb to the failings of the too many wisdom.

Our ego beats us.

Walking out the door and letting one person finish the work is the most difficult part of the task.

Now that we realize the challenge, let’s get to it.