If you've ever experienced any of those issues, you know there were warning signs along the way that were missed or ignored. Waiting proved quite expensive.<\/p>\n
The Management Debt Mindset<\/h2>\n
Every decision you make has consequences. Taking shortcuts, or not looking for unintended consequences of even good decisions can be costly. You have to be vigilant.<\/p>\n
The Management Debt mindset is about recognizing that these occur, and as a leader you must embrace the never ending buildup of them.<\/p>\n
Problems do not always come to you.<\/h3>\n
Making matters worse, these problems are not always readily apparent to you. Andy Grove describes this as a black box in High Output Management<\/a>; you can't see everything everyone on your team experiences.<\/p>\n Knowing this, you need to have a mindset that you're always looking for management debt and doing something about it; you have to address the issues that matter before <\/em>they become big problems that put you in fire fighting, reactive management<\/a> mode.<\/p>\n Pixar Studios has produced a ridiculous run of hit movies<\/a> over the past two decades. Eleven of sixteen films have had a cumulative critic score<\/a> of over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and they've grossed over $10 billion<\/a> combined worldwide. This is no accident.<\/p>\n Ed Catmull is the cofounder and President of Pixar. After making his lifelong dream of a feature-length computer animated film a reality, he was looking for his next challenge . Making Pixar a great place to work became that goal.<\/p>\nWork hard to uncover them.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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