Keep Flying by Accounting for Drag Points

Navigate inevitable challenges by reframing no-win scenarios, managing other people's priorities, and addressing naysayers and derailers.

Putting your plan to the test in the real world is where the pristine idea that exists in your head butts up against reality — and also runs into all the other tensions and people and beliefs that inhabit your world.

But these drag points aren’t just annoyances. They’re also opportunities to recalibrate, rethink, and refine your approach. Your job isn’t just to fly — you need to account for the drag and adjust your course.

In this mini-course (based on chapter 7 of Start Finishing and the Start Finishing Field Guide), we’ll cover the most common drag points you might encounter as you fly your project in the real world:

1. No-Win Scenarios

2. Other People’s Priorities (OPP)

3. Derailers and Naysayers

And we’ll close with a couple tools that can help you create plans that better allow for those eventual drag points that arise:

1. Project Pre-Mortem

2. Momentum Planning

Let’s get started!

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