How to be Quick Under Pressure

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Agility without direction destroys.

You swerve left. They dash left, then right, then left again, until one day it’s too late. The closer your car gets to squirrels in the road the more they panic.

Unrelenting pressure creates panic.

Anyone can rush around like squirrels on steroids.

It takes time to be quick.

Rushing leaders:

1. Procrastinate. Recurring panic indicates procrastination.
2. Pressure people and feel pressured themselves.
3. Make their crisis your crisis.
4. Think you’re a jerk if you don’t drop everything to pitch in.
5. Excuse their rudeness. No one has time for courtesy and respect when panic sets in. You’re a jerk for not dropping everything, but they aren’t for being rude.
6. Failed to prepare.
7. Feel important. Nothing like time pressure to pump up deflated egos. “I have so much to do. I must be important.”

Quick leaders:

1. Prepare. Quickness is a function of preparation. The unprepared always rush.
2. Plan…