The Devil is in the Details

Situation
The challenge this quarter started off well.  We knew the bar was set high, but we had the knowledge, tools and the ability to handle the challenge.  We all agreed to a leadership structure, and set off.  Although there were challenges and gray zones, I thought time would help solve the communication difficulties throughout the organization.  As the quarter developed, we were doing great on ideation for the event, but for execution, the devil was in the details.  

In my personal perspective, not procrastinating and raising solutions to our communication problems was a lesson I learned this quarter.  During the first half of the quarter our leadership encouraged an environment for our committees to form, plan and execute things within the committees.  Although it would seem this would work given our personalities within each group to accomplish tasks and be self- motivators, the reality was otherwise. Some committees were just spinning their wheels and running in circles without a lot of tangible evidence to show for their work.
My perspective of the second half of the quarter was a knee-jerk reaction to the first half.  I think after seeing the challenges and inefficiencies our leadership took a lot of responsibility onto their shoulders to try and set out on getting a plan, or vision for everyone to work on.   The intentions were never in anyway sinister.  With just a few minds on such a large project, there will be gaps and issues, were only human.  The best way to outline something on this scale is to have more minds working on the problem.  The leadership structure was changed.  Now all the stress is not just on a few people and there are fewer gray zones.  
Lesson
There are still difficulties to work on, but I learned a valuable lesson.  Don’t wait so long before raising questions and offering solutions to help solve the problem.  I think our group lost valuable time by hoping things would just get better on their own. Next time I won’t wait and hope things get better.  When time is on your side, fixing and adjusting things is far better than reinventing how business is done.

Jack