{"id":1580,"date":"2020-09-02T12:09:55","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2020-09-02T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T19:10:00","slug":"newed-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/newed-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Newed Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Five legendary clowns in a 30 year old theater company developing a retro style show. Nothing good could come of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I recommend always collaborating with badasses, but the hangup is badasses can easily bloat your budget and timeline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Two things about badasses: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. They’re driven by challenge<\/strong> – that’s how they became what they are<\/li>
  2. They’re burdened by cognitive biases<\/strong> – they don’t want to lose everything<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The clowns are not going to make something good, I promise you. Even clowns – extremely creative, seemingly no ego, socially liberated, progressively motivated – are held back in this scenario. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It’s like getting in the ring with an eight year old kung fu master. You might be curious about what will happen. Unfortunately, if you lose, you get beat up by little a kid. If you win, you beat up a little kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The theater company thinks putting these five clowns together is going to make a magic cocktail, but they’re missing the ingredient that matters. “NEW”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Of course they’re seeking new<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    They’re trying to make a new show, but a little bit of new is dangerous. What they need is “NEW!” They need an opportunity to start from scratch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    These clowns work for three months and make stale nonsense. They are running out of time. The company is over budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    They have some wrong idea about who they are and how they got there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    They don’t want to take a new approach to work because then, it will prove that they’ve done it wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    They don’t want to accept help from the outside because that will prove they’re not badasses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    They don’t want to throw away all the work they’ve done to make new work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    They want personal validation<\/a> for who they are and not for the work they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Candor will be blocked to protect reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Risk will be avoided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    They have ideas about how things work and those ideas might conflict with their collaborators, so they get more intrenched in fighting for their ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This is not how to create.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    The solution in this case was a NEW director<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Bringing in a NEW collaborator isn’t always the solution, and it would not work without the theater company’s willingness to go all in. If it was just a fresh face, it wouldn’t matter. They needed someone who could start from scratch and really have the authority to burn it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This new director<\/p>\n\n\n\n