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Seeing Your Own Big Picture >---> OwnBig?

Jerry Weinberg October 1, 2000

If you're like me, you're often called into an assignment because you're supposed to be an "expert." Before I get down to the nitty-gritty of a new assignment, I like to place everything in a grand array. I always make mistakes in my assignments, but this way I can hope they'll all be small mistakes.

Finally, a typo! "the three questions show me" should be "...showed..." and I sense, here, an anxiety or an unresolvedness or mixed feelings that persist to the present day. Perhaps the typo is a clue that thinking about even an ancient failure (at negotiation) captures so much of your attention that little things may slip through.

On the other hand, what you say is crucial to a happy career, and you say it simply and clearly with no need for buy-in to some fancy theory. Surely the clues that reveal inner turmoil are well used as a trigger to attempt to regain track of yourself or in extremum, escape to shelter. -- Dick Karpinski

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Updated: Thursday, January 18, 2001