Comments on: Note to Self: Think before publishing http://ericbrown.com/note-to-self-think-before-publishing.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=note-to-self-think-before-publishing Technology, Strategy, People and Projects Wed, 23 May 2012 07:10:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: a sense of urgency by John P Kotter - Book Review | Aligning Technology, Strategy, People & Projects http://ericbrown.com/note-to-self-think-before-publishing.htm#comment-724 a sense of urgency by John P Kotter - Book Review | Aligning Technology, Strategy, People & Projects Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:23:18 +0000 http://ericbrown.com/?p=346#comment-724 [...] about the term ‘creating a sense of urgency‘ in a previous post (see here and here)….I still don’t like the term ‘create’ but am coming to grips with [...] [...] about the term ‘creating a sense of urgency‘ in a previous post (see here and here)….I still don’t like the term ‘create’ but am coming to grips with [...]

]]> By: Eric D. Brown http://ericbrown.com/note-to-self-think-before-publishing.htm#comment-723 Eric D. Brown Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:24:30 +0000 http://ericbrown.com/?p=346#comment-723 JP - Thanks for the comment. I like your thoughts. The urgency issue is something that must exist for change to occur but many organizations don't know how to harness this urgency. Most employees know there are problems and know something needs to change but aren't given any direction or asked for their ideas on what types of change needs to occur. As for priorities...don't get me started :) Thanks! JP – Thanks for the comment.

I like your thoughts. The urgency issue is something that must exist for change to occur but many organizations don’t know how to harness this urgency. Most employees know there are problems and know something needs to change but aren’t given any direction or asked for their ideas on what types of change needs to occur.

As for priorities…don’t get me started :)

Thanks!

]]> By: JP http://ericbrown.com/note-to-self-think-before-publishing.htm#comment-722 JP Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:28:01 +0000 http://ericbrown.com/?p=346#comment-722 Eric, I can understand your issues with using the “urgency” as I often do as well. It makes me think of two things. One, to be talking about people needing a sense of urgency almost sounds like people are so disconnected, ignorant, or unprofessional that they can’t understand or interpret “priorities”. Which most people aren’t any of those things and the pejorative nature of the subtext may invoke some kind of deep-seeded feelings of resentment. This leads me to the second thing, to discuss the word “priority”. To me, and maybe others, priorities usually equates to pressure being applied to get tons, often unreasonable amounts given the space-time continuum, of work done. This is a “priority” or this is “urgent” may be subconsciously being interpreted as “thanks, my stress level is already shredding my muscles and arteries, I needed one more “priority” item to push me over into having an aneurysm.” Keep up the posts and related discussions, I enjoy reading them. JP Eric,

I can understand your issues with using the “urgency” as I often do as well. It makes me think of two things. One, to be talking about people needing a sense of urgency almost sounds like people are so disconnected, ignorant, or unprofessional that they can’t understand or interpret “priorities”. Which most people aren’t any of those things and the pejorative nature of the subtext may invoke some kind of deep-seeded feelings of resentment. This leads me to the second thing, to discuss the word “priority”. To me, and maybe others, priorities usually equates to pressure being applied to get tons, often unreasonable amounts given the space-time continuum, of work done. This is a “priority” or this is “urgent” may be subconsciously being interpreted as “thanks, my stress level is already shredding my muscles and arteries, I needed one more “priority” item to push me over into having an aneurysm.”

Keep up the posts and related discussions, I enjoy reading them.

JP

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