675. The Hidden Tax of Speed — Why Fast Decisions Aren’t Free
We live in a culture that celebrates speed.
Fast growth.
Fast decisions.
Fast pivots.
Fast scaling.
But as Brian Smith, PhD explains in this episode of Daily Influence, speed and readiness are not the same thing.
Drawing from the longest and most in-depth chapter in The I in Team Series™ — “Slow Down” — Brian explores the hidden tax organizations quietly pay months or even years after moving too fast.
In this episode:
The difference between speed and structural readiness
How shortcuts compound into operational and cultural debt
Why urgency-driven cultures slowly exhaust trust
Fast decisions…
The skinny
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