Speed and patience..................

 

Speed creates opportunity. Patience compounds it.

Moving fast will generate more chances. But if you quickly jump from thing to thing, growth will stall.

Get moving and find what works, then do it for decades.

-James Clear

In praise of nimbleness and agileness.........

 

     These organizations also don't realize the criticalness of using speed and timing as a strategy to stay ahead of these monumental shifts barreling down on our culture.  As a result, when faced with competitive threats or sudden consumer shifts, many established organizations pause, debate, set up task force committees, and get caught in analysis paralysis.  When this happens, their more nimble and agile competitors find a hole in their defense system and exploit this weakness by picking off the most valuable customers.

-Kevin Ervin Kelley, Irreplaceable:  How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together

On moving fast and breaking things............

 But the argument I have heard recently that is more likely to resonate with the Democrat's traditional (read: sane) base is something like "we are all for explorations of government efficiency but think it needs to be done in a much more measured and careful way." Unfortunately, for anyone with any experience in organizational cost cutting, a "measured pace" is another way of saying "let's move slow enough so the antibodies in the system have time to kill us." As a result, if anything, I think DOGE is moving too slow.

-Warren Meyer, at the Coyote Blog

On the importance....................

 ........................of starting the clock.

Seven Accelerants of Growth........................

 .......................from Tanmay Vora:

5.  Step back to grow. Growth often involves taking a step back. In our careers, sometimes the best way to move forward is to step back or sideways from our current path. When you step back, you can slingshot forward.

Can we get an Amen..............................?

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Ah, humanity.......................

..................................................Nothing wrong with The World today that more things like this couldn't fix:



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Ponder this one for a moment...........

"The pace of change is never going to be slower than it is now."

-Beth Comstock, as extracted from here

Some sentences just make you go.....

...............hmmmm.  Walking speeds increasing by 10%?  Wondering who did that study?  Could it be just more youngsters living downtown?  Inquiring minds want to know.

"We are in principle accessible anywhere, at any time; we can be texted, emailed, tagged: “The world today is faster, more scheduled, more fragmented, less patient, louder, more wired, more public.” There is not enough downtime. So Lightman argues in his brisk, persuasive essay. His snapshots of the relevant social science portray the grim effects of over-connection in our digital age: young people are more stressed, more prone to depression, less creative, more lonely but never really alone. Our time is ruthlessly graphed into efficient units. The walking speed of pedestrians in 32 cities increased by 10 percent from 1995 to 2005."

-Kieran Setiya, as culled from this Idleness as Flourishing essay

Can I get an Amen.........................?

      In the age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow.
      In the age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
      And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent that sitting still.

-Pico Iyer,  The Art of Stillness:  Adventures In Going Nowhere

Oh please, oh please, oh please.......

Perspective........................

"There is more to life than increasing its speed."
-attributed to Mohandas K. Gandhi

On change...................................

"Change happens at the speed of trust."
-attributed to Lee Fisher, who may have been channeling

At age 64 (did I mention I'm 64),..........

...........I seem to have dispensed with this whole "need for speed" thing.  Friend John E. Smith wrestles with the speeding up of life - here.   A wee excerpt:

"I mentioned some reasons why speed might be important at the beginning of all this.  Those and other good examples of real reasons to move quickly aside, many of us have adopted a 'Speed Is Good' mentality, which we often apply without question or distinction to every part of our lives.

"When we accept that mentality, we tend to expect things to be faster, whether an objective reason for increased speed exists or not.  We now become very irritated and start pounding on inanimate objects simply because they do not deliver results as quickly as we expect them to do.

"We are an impatient species these days."