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We live in a culture with a strong bias for action. This is good; it is what has propelled American enterprise as the engine of global commerce. But in the process, it has chewed up good ideas and good people. While ideas are not in short supply, thinking them through is not valued enough. Too often we jump the gun with half-baked ideas, not because we are half-baked but because our management system rewards us for doing, not thinking.
Sounds a lot like the point I mentioned yesterday, rewarding promises (and action to carry them out) rather than results (and thought to make sure those promises can be kept).
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