LEADERSHIP

EVEN SUPERHEROES NEED A PLAN • 19
In the end, when pushed hard to start faster, trust your intuition,
your experience, and most importantly, trust your
CAPE! To finish faster, "start a little slower."
The planning process is the catalyst for improving engagement,
interaction, and collaboration. It helps us improve
understanding, simplify complexity, prioritize and coordinate
workgroup activities, and facilitate better decision making, all
by improving Clarity, revealing required Actions, building
shared Purpose, and stimulating Enthusiasm and commitment.
When you choose to plan, you choose to lead. Let’s get this
adventure started!
Superpower Points
• Even superheroes do better with a plan.
• When you choose to plan, you choose to lead.
• Projects and team assignments are becoming an
ever-larger portion of the average professional’s
work.
• Short-duration cross-functional teams with few or
no dedicated resources and no clear lines of authority
or responsibility are increasingly the norm.
• The key to success with challenging projects lies in
the ability to bring people together with Clarity,
Purpose, Action, and Enthusiasm.
• Right-size your plan based on project size, complexity,
and risk.
• To reduce risk and improve agility, negotiate flexibility
in the triple constraints.
• To finish faster, start a little slower.