Skip to main content

Rush!

Rush has problems all over it. It is a sign you do not have a clear idea of what you are involved in, where you are in it and how far you are from where you need to go. 

You know that you are supposed to be where you need to be, and you are not sure if you can reach there faster.

Rushing is a reaction to chaos that arises out of poor planning. Rushing makes you make decisions with a short-term outlook.

We think your immediate near-field visibility is the broad picture of what we are set out to do.

Feeling the rush? You need to take a deep breath. Climb up the terrace. Look down in your front yard and get a good measure of the chaos in front of your house. Picture yourself in there from a distance.

You will notice you are fire-fighting one thing after another. You are trying to win the adjacent without knowing whether that will lead the chaos to stop. Hoping that it will.

Take a top view you will notice how poor your battles are. Understand the broad picture and then turn the run into a pause for a breath, provide a space to think, and then, by all means, act!

Rush is not risk. Rush is ill-equipped. Rush becomes a staller eventually.

Abandon rush. 

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Checks and balances!

Defining a good purpose, setting a target goal and getting people working on them is usually not enough! There are too many aspects involved in getting the results we want. For example, there is an aspect of painting the big picture, working on motivation management, productivity tracking, building experimentation labs, and erecting resilient systems that systematize the workflows. Just putting bodies to work and defining milestones rarely achieves the right results. The other aspects that help march towards the milestones in an orderly manner, they are equally important. At the very least, they make objectives widely understandable and results more attainable. The job of a thought leader is to enable progress and enable recovery. Therefore, it is never enough to have just ideas. Those with ideas also have the responsibility to assemble the work environment in such a way as to create situations containing the energy disperses. Energy dispersal from lack of clarity, loss of motivation, ...

Liked? Or Respected?

It is easy to bend backwards and accomodate others. When you do so, it is obvious to generate affection that leads to you being likeable. You tend to be always available, seek others' attention more that what your needs are for yourself, or do things to transactionally connect with others. As long as you continue doing what others prefer, you are sure to be liked! And who does not like to liked like that! People pleasing acts have huge downsides. It is different when you set boundaries, take a principled stand about when do you indulge with collaborative activity involving others and when you focus on your priorities. Principles drive energies, brings rigor and sets responsibilities. It is governed with consistency and you come across that uniform, thought and consistent in any and every situation as against preferential. Obviously, principled person is hard to pierce into. When you do, you will discover rythem of clear communication, prioritisation, importance of building long-ter...

Own it!

Owning is an act of proactive work.  You own through willingness and willingness emerges as a result of feeling the sense of belonging. Initiative helps define baby steps that gives you access to responsibility. Responsibility allows you to take actions that give you the power to influence but never control the outcomes. However, this act of taking baby steps eventually lets us be owners - of our own decisions. Owning vital responsibility usually results in desired results and happiness for yourselves or owning responsibility can sometimes mean taking an arduous endless path to make those around you happy. The best you can do is to own your decisions and accept the outcomes you get.