Fires and Festina Lente

In our recent post, we began exploring fire-fighting in business.  Everyone wants to speed up important initiatives, but often companies fail to achieve true speed because their leaders and employees are too busy dashing around with a fire hose. Instead of telling your people to hurry up, consider telling them:  “Festina lente.” Festina lente was [...]

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Do You Fan the Flames or Fight the Fire?—or Both?

By Steve Barry “How can we execute on a strategy if we’re busy fighting fires all day?” This question came up in our recent webinar on driving strategic initiatives.  Fire fighting is a seemingly bulletproof “yeah, but”:  “Yeah, I know that is the new strategy, but (insert your own ‘fire’ here: the client’s going to [...]

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