After working on multiple projects with multiple teams in the past year, here’s what I realized:

Projects are never stuck because of lack of skills. It is not even lack of resources.

The missing piece in the puzzle is often initiative. It is the lack of initiative that hinders any kind of progress.

Skills can be learnt. Resources can be procured. I am not sure if that is the case with initiative. Perhaps it is something that is inherent.

Especially in projects involving multi-disciplinary teams. Otherwise, it is very easy to enter the blackhole in this case.

One team is dependent on the other, everyone knows what has to be done, yet there has to be someone to push things forward.

It’s just like reading a self-help book or watching motivational videos. They are telling us what we already know, but many people want to indulge in them repeatedly. It has become a need for some.

I have always wondered about the reason behind this.

Maybe this is a result of our education system. Where we are always expected to seek permission, wait for instructions.

But anyway, it is always fun doing things with high-initiative people. All such people I have come across until now, were never the smartest or had anything extra-ordinary about them.

Or infact, what was extra-ordinary about them was their ability to initiate, their ability to execute.