This is what one of my old fire chief's yelled at us.

His point: Don't get paralysis by analysis.

𝗜𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀:

You are sitting in a conference room or Zoom meeting and your team has been tasked with fixing an important problem for the company.

After an hour or two, your team has come up with 3 possible solutions.

None are sure winners, so the consensus is to start with idea no. 2

Before too long, confidence in that idea begins to show cracks and the team lead decides to abandon it for idea no. 1.

The situation repeats and each idea is revisited at least once.

The problem does eventually get fixed, but it takes much longer due to the constant pivoting.

This is paralysis by analysis and it can sink companies.

Not all ideas 💡 are good ones.

Some you will have to abandon pretty early.

But if you are going to pivot, be sure that you have seen that first idea through to its end so that you can remove it from the list of options.

This is where great leadership comes in.

Having a leader who can listen to the arguments, pick a direction, and go with it is crucial.

Even more so is sticking with an idea long enough to ensure it is or isn't working before the pivot.