Your Great Idea is Now a PowerPoint Monster
The lukewarm coffee is doing nothing. You’re watching Dave, from Strategic Initiatives, present slide 35 of a deck that now has 95 slides. On the screen is a diagram that looks like a migraine made visual-a web of interconnected hexagons and directional arrows. He’s pointing a laser at a box labeled ‘Leveraged Scalability Matrix.’ This, he explains with the enthusiasm of a man who believes his own spreadsheets, is the core of the new plan. And the new plan’s name, you now see, is ‘Project Momentum.’
Your idea was called ‘The Quick-Fix Team.’
It was a simple concept born out of pure frustration. You proposed a small, autonomous team of 5 people, pulled from different departments, with a discretionary budget of $5,775, empowered to solve the nagging operational problems that everyone complains about but no one is assigned to fix. Things like the broken ticket submission system or the absurdly long process for ordering new office chairs. The pitch was 5 slides. It was clear, direct, and focused on immediate impact.
‘Project Momentum’ has 15 articulated objectives, 25 key performance indicators, a governance council of 15 senior leaders, and a five-phase rollout plan that stretches over 25 months. Your quick-fix team is gone. In its place is a ‘Synergistic Task Force’
