I came across an email that gave a glowing review of a company’s internal website. There was one line that really made be grin and chuckle in the way my colleagues have learned to love and ignore:
“The launch and use of this (internal website) has been so positive that we are making active decisions based upon the data.”
Now as for me, I really really like active decisions. It’s those pesky passive decisions that keep us from progressing our deliverables.
Or worse, deprogressing the deliverables, which is when we stop progressing and start moving backwards, which means we have to start undeprogressing them (which is to stop moving backwards).
At this stage that we’ve probably simply stopped, and are waiting for someone to make an active decision to help us progress again.
Or shall I say reprogress?