Driving Technical Change

Prognosis

The Herd are the second easiest group to move. Basically, you lead and they follow. It’s simple but still requires work. It will take the effort of leadership from you. This might seem like an small cost to pay, and up front it is, but leadership wears on you. Think of it like maintenance costs in an application. Building applications is cheap compared to maintaining them. An ongoing leadership or mentoring relationship has higher costs than the initial conversion. I’m not discouraging that relationship, just pointing out that it doesn’t come free. Also, if you can pick up some younger team members who can become leaders and add them to your cause, the investment is well worth it.

Footnotes

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