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Talking vs. doing…

Posted in Innovation by justin on the December 19th, 2005

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The tendency in business today is to over-plan everything. Between the 8.2 metric tons of paper and the endless meetings, we forget about the fact that while we’re planning nothing gets done.

Jason at Signal vs. Noise (37signals’ weblog about… well just about anything) talks about how they got months into planning their affiliate program for BaseCamp when they decided to simplify and just launch it.

The result is, they launched a simpler affiliate program in 1 week.

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  1. fantast said,

    on December 20th, 2005 at 11:27 pm

    you can always sit around and talk about the best bomb in the world, while others are building it…

  2. Paul said,

    on December 23rd, 2005 at 10:03 pm

    The SINGLE biggest problem with corporations today…but when you boil it down, it’s just upper management and directors who are afraid of losing their jobs, because back in the day when they weren’t in a powerful position, I guarantee you they just did things without making alternative plans for every situation that may arise!


  3. on December 30th, 2005 at 11:03 pm

    Meetings vs. Just Doing It

    Justin wrote previously about an article where “talking vs doing” in a corporate environment was discussed, (link) and I wanted to add just a touch more to it.
    It’s not just the meetings vs. just diving right in, but a lot to do w…

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