From time to time some meetings don’t always go straight forwardly.
Know what I mean?
Have you ever had one? Of course you have.
During a recent strategy planning session one of the client’s team said. That’s all very well, but when you are surrounded by crocodiles you have no choice but to deal with the one closest to the canoe”!
What he was trying to let us all know was that he was too busy to provide the information that the project required.
He was told in no uncertain terms. ‘That was all very well but he must make our project a priority’!
Sadly he continued to work on his old basis i.e. he would respond when our crocodile got closest to his canoe.
Unfortunately, he lost us a great deal of time, missed us several deadlines and a few unrepeatable opportunities.
I had to chase him repeatedly for information, afterall I’m a professional!
Eventually, we completed the exercise and all parties where happy, until I reminded them that we had actually lost nine months or in other words nine months of improved profits!
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