thank you for your comment.

For me, not blinking is what comes after the decision - be it a split-second gut instinct call, or a long and drawn out process. It is a little bit Zen-after-the-fact - allow for the procrastination as part of the process then throw yourself into it 110% (more in Testing to Failure). Any procrastination may be bad - or it could be a good thing to put on Mr deBono’s different Thinking Hats and look at the issue from different angles. Everyone has always-on ideas factory, and I’ve learnt to listen to mine, sometimes to my detriment - I am often torn between completing one idea in the available time or pursuing the next big thing. This is one of the reasons that I loved the book that Lisa and yourself wrote - Cubicle Commando taught me that it is OK to have the big ideas and to follow them up within a corporate environment - and why I love working for SMS, because big ideas, well executed, are well accepted and rewarded.

There certainly is a danger in thinking too much - let us find the thing that will make the biggest difference, and then, please, may we not blink!

Best regards, Andrew

I spent a day with a client yesterday working through their “We want to be doing X but are stuck doing Y” problem. At the end of the day, the answer was clearly - just start doing it. Now. Today.

There is a danger in thinking too much about something, and not gut-feeling enough. The “failures” I have had have pretty much come from rationalising myself into a situation that felt wrong from the start! Not easy for me to learn this one as I have always thought rational, logical thought is the be-all and end-all of decision making.

thank you for your comment. No-one would dispute that there are some projects that are ill-conceived - the question I ask myself is this: is it better to have ten failures and one success, or no failures and no successes?

Something to ponder
Cheers, Andrew