Imagine your on a project, this project’s deadline is your health. You get a fever, the project gets a fever, you get sick the project gets sick, you get the general idea. You are now disusing the status of meeting your objectives and deadlines with your manager(s). Things are not looking too good, and your in pretty bad shape.

Right about now you are sitting there with one of your arms cut off (bureaucracy), an eye on the verge of retinal detachment (lack of strategic vision/requirements), and a slight headache (you drank last night). Your manager is your triage nurse, making sure you come out of this alive and well. Because alive and well looks better on paper than horribly dead.

So your nurse looks up, and says, “Okay first thing is first, lets get that fever taken care of, we wouldn’t want you to get sick. ”

You ask, “Why my fever first!? My freak n’ arm is cut off I can’t do as much work to meet the deadlines, I only have one arm?!”

Triage Nurse - “We can mitigate that.”

You - “But it’s my bloody arm?!”

Nurse - “Listen…. All we need to do is go out and get another person to help you. We can just add another person and they will do what your left arm did. In-fact, by my calculations, you’ll actually have 1 extra arm. Given that you will have an extra arm, you should actually be done with your stuff in 1/2 the time.”

You - “But what about my eye?!”

Nurse - “Again, since we are adding this extra body, you’ll now have 2 eyes, plus a spare.”

You - “Wow, adding bodies can fix a lot of problems”

Nurse - “Yes. Now, onto that headache of yours.”