Be Smooth, as the Navy SEALS (and Patti & Jack) say
“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.” This is a motto of the Navy SEALs, it is one of our philosophies for making processes more efficient, and it is a personal mantra for how we are trying to build our business. Moving quickly and recklessly into any situation usually causes breakages, bottlenecks, and needless Band-Aids.
For example, if widely accepted processes are not implemented, the system will break and need to be re-created when someone critical leaves an organization, or new is added. Or, perhaps the organization isn’t thinking of resource capacity like a well-oiled assembly-line floor. At a certain set time, there is a person or department that everyone will start to gripe about because they are holding up the team getting to the finished product. The organization didn’t think about all of the micro-steps that had to occur at that bottleneck and what could be off-loaded or redistributed during those set times.
Suppose the process isn’t approached thoughtfully by looking at the forest and the trees, and the organization only has the set rule of making a deadline or finishing the process. In that case, the team will do what needs to be done to get it done, which can lead to Band-Aids being put on the system to speed things up rather than doing it the “approved” way and learning that things need to change for it to get done correctly.
At Grounded With Data, we have processes to help organizations understand their processes and processes to help them learn about change management, company culture shifts, and process improvement through capacity planning, throughput, and technology.
See the rest of our philosophies about how we run our business!
