Baking Cakes & getting $#!^ done at work!
Ever bake a cake? Ever bake a cake with people?
Certain projects are like baking cakes.
The more people the more complicated it gets. When baking a cake with people you have to learn, organize, communicate, organize, communicate, then do. And most likely repeat some parts of that process.
Some things in business are more like cakes than they are like these ‘scalable systems’ that we are always striving for. In the end your guests won’t be able to tell if the cake was made by one or by many. And when looking at internal costs it will be far cheaper to let a baker go solo on their effort. May take a little longer, but in the end less time/$ spent as a whole.
But what happens if that baker quits or gets hit by a preverbal bus? It’s a cake…not a 5 course meal with fancy sauces. Some projects are like potluck dinners (collaborative) or like a cafeteria line (assembly line style). The worst thing we can do is apply ‘potluck mentality’ on the whole of our projects. Perhaps thats why we have so many meetings.
