Hack Your Bureaucracy

If you believe your idea is a great one, it’s easy to think that a hundred other bad ideas in your organization won’t hold you back. And they may not. But when there’s a lot of competition for resources—time, money, people—it’s that much harder to get the resources you need. Forcing yourself and others to think through gating milestones for proposals can proactively and objectively weed out resource-sucking bad ideas, leaving more room for yours.