Rushed then

Some things, rush jobs, don’t suffer from being rushed. What we always do, but a little bit quicker, or jumping them to the front of the queue. A job that we know how to do … rushed. Nothing really suffers – not quality, not completeness, not performance on any meaningful measure.

The rest of the time rush means worse. Rush means lack of thought or finesse or room for polish or evolution. Rush means cutting out vital stages that are there explicitly to create value.

Rushed jobs then – doing less than would normally be considered a decent job.

Which might be acceptable.

That’s the thoughtful calculus.

But rush without thought, for no good reason (except it’s easier, as in less effort, or because you forgot to do it earlier) is just careless and (unless it’s you?) unacceptable.

Skippy strategy: Rush jobs are based on capacity and capability, rushing is everything else.

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