缺乏清晰度，你就不能实现它！
“你们的团队的使命是什么？” 我问在场的团队成员。
他们都能把使命宣言一字不漏地背诵出来。
“非常好！” 我接着问：“请解释宣言的意思。”
我接下来听到的是对团队使命的几种不同解读。还有， “哦，我以为这项的意思是…”，“诶，这里应该是指…”，“我不认为这是我们份内该做的…”，等。
这不是一个孤立的事件。
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Without clarity, you can’t get there!
“What is your team’s mission?” I asked the team members in the room.
They recited their mission statement, verbatim.
“Great! What does it mean?” I asked again.
What followed was several different explanations about the team’s mission. And “Oh, I thought this meant…”, “Wait, wasn’t this supposed to be…”, “I don’t think that’s part of what we do…”, etc.
This wasn’t an isolated incident.
这并不只关乎解决问题！
我的一位客户最近刚被委任为一个团队的领导者。他带领的不是一个全新的团队，而是他所属的机构进行重组后而得的一个团队。
既然不是新的团队，团员已经有现有的角色与职责，而且也有之前已经面对的问题与障碍。
客户的第一步是着手尝试厘清问题并找出解决方法。数周后，他仍然未厘清那些问题，更不用说解决它们。
It’s not just about solving problems!
A client recently took over a team at work. It wasn’t a new team. The organisation went through some restructuring, and his boss asked him to lead this restructured team.
Since this wasn’t a new team, they already have existing roles and responsibilities, along with some problems and baggage.
My client’s first action was to try and sort through the problems and figure out ways to resolve them. Several weeks later, he was still at it, and the problems don’t seem to be nearing resolution.
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