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Improvisation - An Essential Skill for Senior EMs

#EM #leadership

Why I Had to Learn Improvisation

I'm an INTJ architect. My natural instinct is to plan everything.

But being a senior EM taught me a hard lesson:

  1. Executives dont get prep time. Decisions happen on the spot, usually when I least expect it.
  2. You have to adapt and learn that skill, too.

This article was originally published on https://craftengineer.com/. It was written by a human and polished using grammar tools for clarity.
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