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the second role of managing work in progress

To effectively manage the risk of early-stage creative work, you need two tools: what I will call portfolio thinking and ownership stakes.

within a year, she had put together a cross-agency group of behavioral scientists, policy experts, and program makers, founding and chairing the White House’s first-ever Social and Behavioral Sciences Team. When Obama left office in January 2017, Shankar also departed, moving on to become Google’s global director of behavioral science. In 2021, she

Peter the writer needs process deadlines, like dates at which point he has to share his work with a colleague no matter what. Process deadlines are different from outcome goals. They give you a check-in point to cram toward even if you can’t fully know the final version yet.

The core structures we are working with are: • the clear designation of roles • the placement of milestones • the “sprint” of scheduling work over a relatively short period of time