2017 is a few short weeks away, and it’s time to start thinking about how we might approach our work differently in the new year. On that theme, Troy Etulain and I came up with a few questions that can help us all think through changes we may want to make in our efforts:
- What is the story we tell ourselves about our organizations?
- What do we really bring to our constituencies?
- What is the true extent of our knowledge on the topic?
- What is left when we remove the technology jargon from our work?
- Where do our solutions rank on the technology zeitgeist scale?
- Are we selling solutions in deceptive ways, just to make the sale?
- How did we go about understanding and defining the problems are we trying to solve?
- Where in our project designs do we assume someone else will make the hard decisions about winners and losers?
- Are we trying to be responsible for the whole picture, even beyond the parts we can control?
- Is what we’re doing only useful in HQ?
- What should be left to the private sector?
- When should we have the courage to give up?
What other questions should we be asking ourselves in 2017? Tell us in the comments.
Here is mine: is meaningful what I am doing? (and if yes – for whom?)