Scaling Excellence: Go slow to go fast.

In their recent book called “Scaling Up Excellence” Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao share a key insight that companies should embrace as they build excellence into their organization: at times, it makes sense to go slow so that in the future a company can go fast. You are probably familiar with this concept from the world of carpentry where the mantra is to “measure twice and cut once”.

But in today’s fast-paced world, slowing down seems to be at odds with success. Companies are afraid of being disrupted and are frantically trying to avoid it at all costs. The business press fuels that fire with stories of how new technologies are going to wipe out entire industries. And while some of it may come to pass, most of it is hype to get people to read an article. READ MORE