Comments on: Speed of Thought https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/04/speed-of-thought/ Clark Quinn's learnings about learning Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:34:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dave’s Whiteboard » Blog Archive » The best, practice https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/04/speed-of-thought/#comment-57430 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:10:18 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=305#comment-57430 […] Quinn wrote about the speed of thought the other day. One of his observations is that business should move at the speed of thought — […]

]]> By: Clark https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/04/speed-of-thought/#comment-57417 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:41:13 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=305#comment-57417 Dave, those few comparing wins and losses probably survived better. We sure are wired to process stories, hence the interest in capturing and sharing them. I suppose it’s one way to smuggle in reflection… Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Dave Ferguson https://blog.learnlets.com/2008/04/speed-of-thought/#comment-57259 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:35:10 +0000 http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=305#comment-57259 You’re onto something important here (though maybe I just don’t like being rushed). While our brains did evolve to react rapidly in certain environments, those tended to involve finding food and avoiding predators. Another step in that evolution must have come with the survivors sitting around the fire (once they’d discovered it), bragging about how they killed the mammoth. A few began comparing wins and losses.

Alas, in the corporate world, “paralysis by analysis” is a much nastier epithet than “fools rush in.” Too many people act as though the Church of Best Practice was only open on Sunday — or as if its doctrine was handed down once and doesn’t need critical reflection.

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