Ok Chicken Littles, this one’s for you. Fast decisions are not always good decisions. Treating everything as an emergency means nothing is an emergency. Your emergency does not become someone else’s emergency because you say so. People need timeline context to triage appropriately. No: "Need alpaca thing ASAP!!!!!!!!!!!" Good: “I need the alpaca project wrapped up by 5pm tomorrow.” Better: “Can the alpaca project be wrapped up by 5pm tomorrow?” Best: "This is urgent because i

We love the myth of spontaneous collaboration. A brilliant idea > A quick meeting > Everyone jumps in > Magic happens. Except that's usually not what happens. Good outcomes rarely happen by accident. They happen because someone thought about the process. Collaboration without preparation is interruption. It might be important interruption. But it IS interruption. And spontaneous collaboration is really just unplanned work. Now someone has to: Context switch > Stop current wor