Coaching practices for Why is Founder Speed Moving Fast Deciding Quickly Often a Liability as the Business Scales
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- We keep piling new initiatives on top of old ones we’ve outgrown but never stopped, so the team is overloaded and there’s no room to start anything fresh
- I keep assuming the fix for being stretched is to hire more people, but every time we grow we somehow move slower and spend the day just keeping each other in the loop
- I rush the big, costly decisions the same way I rush picking lunch
- Every team here is busy chasing its own goals and the cross-cutting thing that actually matters keeps falling through the cracks
- A call I could make in a day drags out for weeks because we keep circling it waiting for everyone to fully agree
Practices that may help
- Use Start-Stop-Keep reviews to drive continuous improvement
Regularly ask what the team should start, stop, and keep doing — and act on the answers.
The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus - Protect the advantages of small — resist headcount as a measure of success
Adding people to a team adds communication overhead faster than it adds output — protect the productivity of small.
Designing a Calm Company (Fried & Hansson) - Slow down for high-stakes, irreversible decisions
Match deliberation to the cost of being wrong: spend System 2 where reversal is hard.
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Made Usable - Set one organization-wide priority per quarter
Identify the single most important thing the company must accomplish this quarter, and make it everyone’s top priority.
The Rockefeller Habits: Scaling Up with Rhythm and Focus - Disagree and commit — reduce the decision drag of endless debate
Decisions that are made and executed at 80% confidence are almost always better than decisions endlessly refined but never taken.
Designing a Calm Company (Fried & Hansson) - Override recognition and deliberate when the situation is genuinely novel
Flag situations that don’t quite fit a familiar pattern and switch from intuitive to analytical processing.
Recognition-Primed Decision Making - Move fast on two-way doors
On reversible decisions, decide with 70% of the information you wish you had — then adjust.
The Two-Way Door - Respect stock momentum: do not expect fast reversals
A stock that has been depleting for a long time will not refill quickly — plan for the real timeline.
Stocks and Flows - Watch for one-way door creep
Recognize when a series of small reversible decisions has created an irreversible position.
The Two-Way Door - Work at a dramatically different speed
Do the stuck task ten times faster or ten times slower — the speed change changes the output.
Oblique Strategies, Made Practical
Related concerns
- When To Slow Down Decisions
Match deliberation to the cost of being wrong: spend System 2 where reversal is hard.
Slow down for high-stakes, irreversible decisions
- Async Decision Making
Decisions that are made and executed at 80% confidence are almost always better than decisions endlessly refined but never taken.
Disagree and commit — reduce the decision drag of endless debate
- Colleague Thinks That He Is Too Slow
Do the stuck task ten times faster or ten times slower — the speed change changes the output.
Work at a dramatically different speed
- Decide Faster
Match deliberation to the cost of being wrong: spend System 2 where reversal is hard.
- Fast Vs Slow Thinking
Daniel Kahneman describes two modes of thought: System 1 is fast, automatic, and intuitive; System 2 is slow, effortful, and deliberate. Better decisions usually come from noticing when a problem deserves System 2 and deliberately slowing down — though some popular claims from the book (notably certain priming studies) failed to replicate.
- How To Scale A Company
Verne Harnish’s Rockefeller Habits (updated in Scaling Up) distill John D. Rockefeller’s management practices into a system of priorities, data, and meeting rhythms that keep growing companies focused and coordinated. The framework is practitioner-developed and widely used in scale-up companies; the evidence base is primarily case-study and clinical rather than controlled trial.
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