Can your Toddler run a Marathon ?

Let me go out on a limb and say "probably not"…  buy why not?  Simple right… a Toddler just learned to walk and probably just started running somewhat clumsily.  It would be a totally unrealistic expectation to expect your toddler to then be able to run a "Marathon".

But often in our organizations we set these type of goals without understanding the path and dependencies required to reach the goal.. we try to go from "crawling" to "running" and forget we don't know how to "walk" or even worse we proclaim we are going to run a marathon..

Back to the example,  so what are some levels of maturity and their order for Humans:

Maturity Levels: Infant, Toddler, Child, Adolescent, Adult, Senior

Now there are also probably some dependencies and capabilities between the levels. For example, an Infant doesn't have the capability to be "Independent" they are in contrast "Dependent" their capabilities are fairly limited they eat, sleep, pee, poop and have basic communication skills (cry or silence)… anyhow so the point which I hope is obvious is that over time as the Infant "Matures" through the various levels they are "capable" of more and more. Also each level usually has dependencies around things being "mastered or accomplished" in the previous levels.

Just as we don't expect our 4 year olds to bring home an Income we shouldn't have similar unrealistic expectations in our business, technology, architectures, organization and processes.   I'm not saying don't have "bold goals" or "grand visions" (both favorites of mine personally) but my point is in order to accomplish things you have to work on understanding where you are currently at (Maturity level) and the the path and dependencies to move forward and reach success.

Although it seems obvious.. next time you have that project that just seems to never go away.. or is struggling to make progress.

Take a step back.. and make sure your not trying to run before you can walk.

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