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Who's your customer? The department or the citizen. What’s your product? The negotiated-design process or the actual outcome itself. These things are interrelated, but ensure the entire team is aligned and in agreement on what it is you’re doing and what the outcome is you want. What do you want to say you built at the end-of-year summit? The earlier you can figure this out, the better your year will go. Project uncertainty is the mind-killer.
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Don't negotiate with yourselves. My team would have achieved so much more if we had come to an agreement internally on how to proceed in our city design negotiations, and let CfA staff tell us if we were unreasonable. Instead, we watered down what we wanted, caved on major issues, and negotiated individually with our city partners rather than as a team.
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Invest your time in one thing for the entire year. Your understanding of the civic problem-space may change and evolve, but creating a commitment (individually, as a team, and in your city-
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