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Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.
Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
John Gray
Words are too abstract
On the other end of the spectrum, projects that are too vague don’t work either. When a project is defined in a few words, nobody knows what it means. “Build a calendar view” or “add group notifications” sound sensible, but what exactly do they entail? Team members don’t have enough information to make trade-offs. They don’t know what to include or leave out. A programmer who worked in that situation said:
You’re solving a problem with no context. You have to be a mind reader. It’s like: “we’ll know it when we see it.”
Can we make this decision smaller? Can we take one big decision and turn it into three smaller ones?
The 37signals Guide to Making Decisions
37signals.com
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