“ yes, I agree we could help you by doing X, now, lets together look on what we should stop doing to create space for this, ” where a person would frequently discover that, while they would like us to address their pain point, they don’t want it addressed at cost of us deprioritizing our current projects.This year I’ll pick one or two to work on, and I’m going to deliberately ignore the other for a while, even though I think they’re major problems. In the end you have to say, “ There are all of these things that I wish I could work on, and I’m not going to do all of them.If there are already teams working on them, but not in the direction that you think is effective, you can get a lot of leverage out of going to those thirty teams and helping unblock them. If these are things that aren’t getting worked on and that you think should get worked on, you’re going to have much better luck picking one of them at a time and really focusing your effort rather than pushing a little across many different projects at once. It took me a while to recognize that this role didn’t mean I had to work many times harder to be involved in everything, but instead I needed to direct change through others in the organization. As I transitioned into a Staff role, it felt easy to slip into a mindset where I was responsible for everything going on and had to timeslice my focus over too many things. You will harm yourself by accepting a role that demands more pace from you than you’re able to presently sustain.
pacing yourself becomes the central challenge of a sustained, successful career :
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