Project Competition

I see too many projects in competition for the same business real estate.

If you want to get something done, and it will take coordinated teamwork and many steps to complete, making a project out of it is defensible, even smart. But too often, in the name of better business, project-making becomes a distraction from actually doing business.

If you have a project in mind that's similar to one already in progress, you should consider whether it's really worth it to scrap the original effort for the sake of some new approach. It's probably better to finish what you started, and follow-up with an intelligent evaluation period. It's even a worse course to start the new approach concurrently with the old, either denying that their end goals are the same, or squandering resources in the name of "healthy competition."

I should cite examples, but the best of which I'm aware I'm not at liberty to talk about. I appeal to your common sense—cite your own examples.