As soon as possible is the shortest way to failure.
Even when it comes from you (for you).
Even when it’s about something important.
Even when everybody else has already done it.
As soon as possible is a great way to impress an urgency in somebody’s mind for a very short time. And then make everybody forget about it, often even before the job is done.
That’s not why you are here.
Back in your days, things were certainly different. But I promise you, any judgement you are giving on 30-40-50 years before in your life is probably inaccurate, biased, and positively or negatively exaggerated.
It’s a good base to make a joke, not a good one to make a decision.
When I was a teenager, and computers where just starting to become common things in Italian households, I remember a family friend used to be convinced that they could transmit viruses that where dangerous to people.
What happened is that he probably heard about computer viruses, and he just stuck to his own definition: viruses are a danger for human beings.
This challenge in making new ideas fit into old mental concept and ideas is very common. And if you fall into that, you are not an idiot or uneducated. You simply still have not had the mental shift.
And for that, you are pretty much always in time.
You can set rules for the best case scenario or you can set rules for the worst case scenario.
When you use the best case scenario as a basis, you trust that things will progress well, that people are trustworthy, that nothing terrible or horrible will happen, that “bad” is a situation that can still be managed without much pain.
When you use the worst case scenario as a basis, you look at what will go wrong, at those who will betray you or not keep their part of the deal, at principles that need to be protected, at a “good” situation that is very difficult to digest.
Many companies claim that they will be changing the World – or the way the World does this and that. Few even actually understand what changing the World means.
In Finland, a local grocery chain has declared themselves “bully-free zone” (article linked in Finnish). And it’s a fantastic win.
Not because it’s their business. Not because they make money from it. Not because they are getting free publicity.
But because it makes sense.
It must be one of the best executed corporate social responsibility campaigns ever.
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