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Field guide: Make the Wrong Thing Difficult
Chapter 10

Field guide: Make the Wrong Thing Difficult

Make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy. Arrange the room before you ask the people.

6 minField guideBarn and office

Where you will use it

  • Any instruction you have given twice
  • CRM hygiene, handoffs, discovery, homework, chores

Step by step

1
Ask the gate question
What am I about to make easy, and what am I about to make hard?
2
Read the aisle
Where is the hay, the scoop, the wheelbarrow? Where are the tools, the templates, the dashboards? Is anyone hunting for the wrench?
3
Fix the system, not the people
Make logging a call take three seconds, not forty, and the data fixes itself.
4
Wait for the light foot
Like Tom Dorrance with the colt, ask when the person is set up to answer.
5
Give intent, not instructions
What we are trying to accomplish and why. Not how. Intent travels; instructions die on contact.
Watch out
Difficult, not impossible. Make the wrong thing impossible and you have built a prison: surveillance, time clocks, check ins every fifteen minutes. The honest ones leave.
From the book
A playbook is a signal, not a block. People who chose the path trust the path.
The arrangement is written on the bodies in the room. If the shoulders are braced, the arrangement is doing something you haven't admitted yet.
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