Two key concerns for any manager: What to speed up and what to slow down?
The need to act quickly in an emergency is obvious. Less clear are those chores that don't appear to be pressing but really are if deadlines are to be met weeks, months or even years down the road. You can't plant today and harvest next week. Planting season is difficult to postpone.
Tasks that are unduly rushed are another category. To paraphrase a line from the late Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, sometimes the three most important words in the world are "Wait a minute." Many self-imposed deadlines are detached from reality. All they do is cultivate disaster.
Every day is accelerator and brake. Is that a rest stop ahead?
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