In youth hockey, the youngest group (6-8 year olds) is called mites. Watching a mite hockey game, especially with the players in their first games, is a unique experience. Watching a kid on a breakaway is everything, an amalgam of excitement, anticipation, worry, dread. You feel like you can chew off all your fingernails from the time the play starts to when the play ends.
Why? Purely the speed in which the play happens. It takes too long.
Think about the speed of change within an organization. If it takes too long, it probably doesn’t happen. We talk about burning platforms, or Machiavellian-like beheadings. Employees don’t like change, but what they really don’t like is the not knowing what the other side will look like. So why do we draw this stage out?
- Why do we take forever to move some projects?
- Why do we announce reorganizations, and then take months to make it happen?
- How much artificial time do we add to a number of the things we do, and what is the value of that time?
- What is the impact if act twice as quickly as the day before?
If you need to get something done, get the right minds on it, have a discussion and be done with it.
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