Great points, Fish. Your thoughts on small changes made me recall a big learning from navigation training in Flight School and afterwards. Making small heading and speed adjustments throughout the route led to much better outcomes than having to make a big course correction at the end. What this required was having a solid route planned and then frequent and consistent checks along the way. If you stopped paying attention to where you were on the route, you were much more likely to miss the impacts of a headwind on course or airspeed.
I think the same applies to our business processes. Having a system in place to consistently and frequently understand the metrics or KPIs of our products or processes is critical to making timely and relevant "small changes" that can have an outsized impact on performance.
Thanks Mike. Great analogy with the similarity between business and flying. Of course, you were always the better pilot than me. I still use the "hold what you've got" mantra from instrument training on short final when I get in situations where it's easy to thrash about.
Great points, Fish. Your thoughts on small changes made me recall a big learning from navigation training in Flight School and afterwards. Making small heading and speed adjustments throughout the route led to much better outcomes than having to make a big course correction at the end. What this required was having a solid route planned and then frequent and consistent checks along the way. If you stopped paying attention to where you were on the route, you were much more likely to miss the impacts of a headwind on course or airspeed.
I think the same applies to our business processes. Having a system in place to consistently and frequently understand the metrics or KPIs of our products or processes is critical to making timely and relevant "small changes" that can have an outsized impact on performance.
Thanks Mike. Great analogy with the similarity between business and flying. Of course, you were always the better pilot than me. I still use the "hold what you've got" mantra from instrument training on short final when I get in situations where it's easy to thrash about.