Get going sooner
It’s so easy to get away with good enough.
It hurdles the bar.
Maybe only just.
But over it sails and lands on the other side ready to…
Things take as long as they take.
What helps?
Coffee, Focus, clarity, preparation, effective working practices, luck, more coffee, buns, pizza, no noise, white noise, music, radio, alone space, group space, paper, whiteboards … whatever else.
Every one of them takes time.
Thinking takes time.
Considering and coalescing and smashing and filtering and cohering and reviewing takes time.
Everything takes time.
Everything takes time so everything takes as long as it takes. That’s not a recipe for relaxed deadlines and extension after delay.
It’s a prescription.
To get going sooner. With a clear plan and resources you can name and know. It’s a plea – to you and your team – to give things the respect they deserve, to organise from the outset even if you don’t yet know the path. To acknowledge that the path is unclear, then work openly to clear it.
Skippy strategy: Give things the time they deserve.
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