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Field Note #045 | Urgency Is A Formatting Choice
Most organisations have a process for managing urgent work.
Far fewer have a process for questioning urgency itself.
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In this episode, we examine a simple organisational pattern:
"Urgency Inheritance."
The tendency for urgency to survive longer than the evidence that created it.
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We'll explore why humans mistake speed for certainty, how tempo spreads between teams, and one question that can improve decision quality almost immediately: "Who decided the tempo?"
Sometimes the fastest thing in the organisation is not information.
It's an assumption.
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