How to herd cats

I just read this by Maddie Grant on SocialFish, and think it is brilliant:

How do you herd cats? …You tilt the floor. You point everyone in the right direction, not just through words but through action and through intent.

She's talking about an association CEO's role in evolving an organization to be more social, but it could apply to any one of us who, for whatever reason, find ourselves chasing after a bunch of unruly metaphoric kittens these days...