Patience is a vice?

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Sometimes you find yourself treading water. Just staying afloat, going nowhere, and no one's coming to throw you a life buoy. Your stuck. Patience can be a virtue but at some point it becomes a vice, it becomes wishful thinking. If your the only one trying to make it better, make a change, everyone else is stalling, sabotaging, coasting, looking the other way, or just plain pretending that this just isn't their problem, you have to wonder, is it time to get out of the water and try something new? Me, I think so. I think the risk of change is far better than the death spiral of patience and tolerance in intolerable situations. Sometimes things need to get broken, abandoned, left behind, to make something really worth keeping.

Acceleration

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The world is accelerating. Change is the only constant. Our evolution is in our hands. What's your approach to it all? Challenge or Accept Create or Use Revise or Repeat Diverge or Remain Different or Same Lead or Follow Tell or Ask Recommend or Complain Risk or Safe Listen or Shout

Me? I think the advantage falls to those on the left side of the "or" rather than the right. How about you?

Face time

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If you can work from anywhere, which many can these days, why go out of your way to get somewhere to do that work? Why waste time commuting? Why break that time quickening moment to get out of your pajamas's and go somewhere? If office face-time drives you nuts,

If your boss wants to see you because they are a control freak,

If your peers want you within arms reach because they want to socialize,

If your staff needs you to be there to work out every detail in a meeting or you just can't trust them,

Then change something fast.

Make a drop in center rather than an office for those collaboration sessions, socialize over lunch or dinner together, and if all else fails change jobs or loose the needy peers and un-trustworthy staff.

Do something because your wasting the one finite quantity you have - time.

There is always a third choice!

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Interesting situation yesterday. We had been debating at length how to present a simple user interface to quite a complex function and have lost a fair bit of time to it. We felt we had two choices. Leave it as is, which is sub-standard at best, or continue to try and improve it and spend considerable time on it. Our perspective had us stuck there. We thought we only had two choices.

Then Alex came along and echoed the rules that we are supposed to live by. Simplify it! Take it out. A light bulb came on. We took it out.

We actually had three choices but didn't see it; leave something that doesn't work that well as is, continue to invest in it, or don't do it all as it isn't worth the trouble of making anyone use it or anyone improve it.

This was a software situation but I think these rules apply to everything in all walks of life.