False Emergency
Abhimanyu Gupta, Ph.D.
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Abhimanyu Gupta, Ph.D.
Award-winning Educator at Saint Louis University | AI Strategy Consultant
My boss called me late at night and asked if I could put a report together before our early morning meeting to defend the complaints made by a customer. So I spent almost the entire night writing.
When I saw my boss first thing in the morning, he said he liked the report, but he might not use it right that moment as our meeting with the customer is not until next week.
Many emergencies we react to are false emergencies created by someone else. We better always ask questions before taking our deadlines set by other people for granted.?
Vision AI Researcher at Penn State
1 年This made me remember the fabled story we read in our school days A Wolf and the Shepherd Boy. Once there lived a boy. He lived in a small village. He took out his sheep for grazing every day. He would go to a nearby jungle. One day he thought of mischief. He climbed up a tree and shouted, “Help! Help! A wolf is coming”. The villagers rushed to his help. They found no wolf there. The boy laughed at them. He said that he had cried for the sake of fun. The villagers went back. On another day, he repeated the joke. The villagers again came to help him. They found no wolf. One day a wolf actually came there. The boy shouted for help. No one came to his help. The wolf killed him and his sheep also.
Medart Endowed Chair in Family Business at Saint Louis University
1 年Artificial deadlines are sometimes used to “motivate” but usually result in dissatisfaction and disengagement. Abhimanyu, I feel like many can relate to this post!