Draft the policy yourself

So we talked about the space between the silos and following from start to finish. What are some of the other approaches? Picking up the pen. So I first learned this one at the VA for a while. We were missing one of our senior leader roles. We hadn't hired for it yet, and so we were kind of distributing that role's tasks among the staff. And one of them involved having to go to the White House for a meeting, which sounds really exciting and like everybody would want to do it, but that means waiting in the security line for two hours in the hot sun. So I, as the new person on the team, got hegged in to take on this meeting and I was supposed to write the president's management agenda, which is a pretty big deal in the federal government. And one of the tasks at that meeting was, "Hey, can someone write a technology goal on a slide?" And so I'm looking around figuring other people showed up with all their ideas, but nope, here was the blank slide. And so I said, "Oh, I'll do it. I'm…