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> show urgency I call this "artificial panic". That term came to mind when I joined a FMCG around Y2K, and on my first weeks I noticed people were running arou
by HenryBemis 6y ago
> show urgency
I call this "artificial panic". That term came to mind when I joined a FMCG around Y2K, and on my first weeks I noticed people were running around stressed, like headless chicken. When I asked "what's on fire" and the answer was "nothing".
https://dilbert.com/strip/2012-07-15 https://dilbert.com/strip/2012-07-15
The "Minimalists" say on their podcast that "most emergencies, aren't". When I see panic setting camp in a company's mentality, I make myself scarce for a while until things calm down. If I see that the artificial state of panic is a perpetual feeding machine, I try to dance around it. I've read my share of Dilbert to know to avoid these toxic environments.
Sometimes you need to be a Wally to survive.
https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-11-12 https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-11-12
- biddlesby 6y agoReminds me of Douglas Adam's "Crisis Inducer" :)
- lifeisstillgood 6y agoUrgency is a matter of prioritisation. Ideally in a company there would be one single order backlog, showing the relative value of each project to everyone. However getting such an ordering would involve huge co-ordination across vastly differing internal companies / cultures and would drag up every buried political hand grenade of the company's lifetime. So instead you do what someone shouts loudly about. If the shouter is right more than 50/50 they are doing pretty well.
- HenryBemis 6y agoCorrecting myself (for the record). The Minimalists say that "most CRISES, aren't" (apologies for the caps). I used the word emergencies, which is inaccurate quote.