Everybody wants to move fast.

Certainly, some self-sabotage by weighing themselves down with unnecessary bureaucracy that accumulates as they scale. They accidentally create an environment that won’t permit speed.

But in my experience, that’s not the most common cause of systemic failure to deliver. Most failure stems from trying to go faster than you can responsibly go.

We don’t lose races because our people are walking when they should be running. We lose because we force our people to run faster than they can.

We force our people to hurry, and then we are surprised when they stumble.

Cover Image: “Hurry” by Georgie Pauwels is licensed under CC BY 2.0