A change in focus requires a change in indicators.
If you decide to focus on employees well-being and retention, why are you still talking about growth rate?
If you decide to break down the silos, why are you still setting goals and reporting results by department?
If you want to spend more time with your family, why is your salary still the measure of your success?
A change is a change.
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.
There’s too much talk about improvement and growth and too little talk about acceptance and contentment.
Wanting to be better, wanting to have more, wanting to learn and move forward, these are all very commendable aspirations. But when they get applied to every situation and when we look at them in the shortest possible amount of time, they are just going to eat us.
Life is not that long, and we need to find a way to be OK with what we have, with who we are.
Whatever you are working on, and whatever the meaning of good, cheap, and fast is in that context, it’s always important to remember that you can’t have them all at the same time.
Focus is key. And again, just like yesterday, the more people are involved in that project, the more important it is to give them clarity.
When you have a project that matters, it’s silly to keep it to yourself.
Much better to share it, to go over ideas and obstacles with other people, to celebrate successes with those involved and analyze failures with those you trust.
But you also have to keep mind that everyone has an opinion, and everyone has their own experience.
So, if you plan to try everything that comes up in these conversations, even when it is with somebody who clearly have something to contribute, you will soon be lost.
Note that the more people are involved in the project, the greater the confusion will be.
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