May 26, 2026

The long way

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Whatever the issue – whatever! the! issue! – every day you don’t deal with it is another day you have to deal with not dealing with it.

Working out ways to go around it, spending time and attention doing things the long way instead of the short way, keeping it in mind so you don’t trip up, again, whenever you try to move forward.

Let’s say the issue you never deal with is that difficult person, or the underinvestment in new product development, or the bottleneck in production – you spend so much time navigating around the issue that everyone spends a lot less time doing the things they need to do to move the rest of the business forward.

Which means, we have no time to do the things we know we need to do.

Skippy strategy: Deal with the issue, or condemn yourself to navigating around the issue.

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