Speed Is The New Management Competency

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week – George S. Patton

I’m not sure I’m completely on board with General Patton. I do think that in certain situations, making a decision (keeping in mind that failure to make a decision is a decision) is critical to success of a strategy. And, I agree with Dave Girouard, the former Google Enterprise President and author of the Fast Company piece, How To Make Decisions More Efficiently, that speed of decisionmaking is a management competency, and that “speed is the ultimate weapon in business.”

Why . . .