Posted on Mar 17, 2021
What is best; a response that has no substance or a reaction written in fear, or a positive reaction to an action that can be the answer?
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We often give responses that have no substance or we fear the outcome of our response, while writing it. In such circumstances, it is best not to respond and gather your thoughts in the meantime. If your audience is expecting a reaction from you and you don't react, the message you send is much stronger than sending a poorly constructed message.
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Yes. No. Maybe. Remember that a bad plan executed violently and on time is better than the perfect plan executed too late.
Yes, gathering your thoughts and coming up with a well-thought out solution to identified problems is almost always the best answer. However sometimes we simply must react to the situation at hand in an attempt to stop it from getting worse.
If we were to see someone lying on the floor with arterial blood spurts, we would never step back and take the time to figure out the best way to treat the person. We would dive in and do everything we could to stop the bleeding. This is why training is important - to know what to do BEFORE you have to do it.
Obviously in the corporate world, we are not likely to encounter arterial blood spurts. But we can often encounter "workplace first aid" situations. What do you do if you see sexual harassment occurring? What about escalating verbal conflict? Or all-out physical confrontation? What do you do when a fed-up employee intentionally tanks a meeting with an important client as their way of quitting? Or even just a BAD employee UNINTENTIONALLY tanking the meeting? Etc.
In these situations, where a reaction is not only expected, it is REQUIRED, inaction ALSO sends a very strong message - and not a good one. In these situations, even doing the WRONG thing is quite often better than doing NOTHING.
Analysis is great. But we must make sure we do not allow ourselves to get "analysis paralysis." Take as much time as you need - and have available - to come up with a good solution, and then EXECUTE. And acknowledge that SOMETIMES the time available with be measured in seconds rather than days.
Yes, gathering your thoughts and coming up with a well-thought out solution to identified problems is almost always the best answer. However sometimes we simply must react to the situation at hand in an attempt to stop it from getting worse.
If we were to see someone lying on the floor with arterial blood spurts, we would never step back and take the time to figure out the best way to treat the person. We would dive in and do everything we could to stop the bleeding. This is why training is important - to know what to do BEFORE you have to do it.
Obviously in the corporate world, we are not likely to encounter arterial blood spurts. But we can often encounter "workplace first aid" situations. What do you do if you see sexual harassment occurring? What about escalating verbal conflict? Or all-out physical confrontation? What do you do when a fed-up employee intentionally tanks a meeting with an important client as their way of quitting? Or even just a BAD employee UNINTENTIONALLY tanking the meeting? Etc.
In these situations, where a reaction is not only expected, it is REQUIRED, inaction ALSO sends a very strong message - and not a good one. In these situations, even doing the WRONG thing is quite often better than doing NOTHING.
Analysis is great. But we must make sure we do not allow ourselves to get "analysis paralysis." Take as much time as you need - and have available - to come up with a good solution, and then EXECUTE. And acknowledge that SOMETIMES the time available with be measured in seconds rather than days.
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SFC Casey O'Mally
SSG (Join to see) - It is a paraphrase of Patton. (His ACTUAL quote is "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.")
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SFC Casey O'Mally
1SG Fred "SARGE" Bucci - Nothing. I honestly don't know much about him aside from he was a great General. Haven't even seen the movie, let alone read a book. I don't even remember where I stumbled across that quote, but it made a hell of a lot of sense.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
1SG Fred "SARGE" Bucci Good Evening Top.
My progress is slow not because I am lazy, it is because I have a concept called "world class". At informal unit Christmas parties I tried to go "world class" by incorporating big door prizes like a TV and Boom Box to include other smaller prizes.
Our veterans and SMs deserve "world class" in regards to PTSD help and treatment and I expect nothing less than that from me. I want to give them my best because they deserve it. If the paper is a battlefield I noticed that my plan was not completely coherent and sometimes the avenue of approach to objectives overlapped or was fuzzy.
I did one full edit. One scrub. I will do another scrub tomorrow. It can be challenging because I myself have PTSD and ADHD. I think I have worked 20 hours on the paper in the last three days.
I added more meat to it like identifying the major symptoms of PTSD and going over coping skills for each one. I think that section will make money. I also discussed a possible way to reduce burden if one loses troops. Only two people have asked how to solve the dilemma, but my advice worked for both of them. I added a section to help people become happier with or without PTSD. I think I will make a little money from that.
I was told perhaps I should use simple words which has somewhat curtailed me. The other facet that is challenging is I am taking concepts and trying to make sand tables of them on paper in order to help others visualize PTSD and the many faces of it. I needed to boil down concepts and present them in a coherent manner with the KISS principle to guide me.
So yes tell your organization to hold on the paper. My intent is to transform a D rated paper to an A rated paper. I really am embarrassed with the last edition. I thought it read like shit. Perhaps the only reason some people enjoyed reading it was the content and perspective is much different than anything available now.
I will try my best, and I will even add a mediocre poem at the end. lol
My progress is slow not because I am lazy, it is because I have a concept called "world class". At informal unit Christmas parties I tried to go "world class" by incorporating big door prizes like a TV and Boom Box to include other smaller prizes.
Our veterans and SMs deserve "world class" in regards to PTSD help and treatment and I expect nothing less than that from me. I want to give them my best because they deserve it. If the paper is a battlefield I noticed that my plan was not completely coherent and sometimes the avenue of approach to objectives overlapped or was fuzzy.
I did one full edit. One scrub. I will do another scrub tomorrow. It can be challenging because I myself have PTSD and ADHD. I think I have worked 20 hours on the paper in the last three days.
I added more meat to it like identifying the major symptoms of PTSD and going over coping skills for each one. I think that section will make money. I also discussed a possible way to reduce burden if one loses troops. Only two people have asked how to solve the dilemma, but my advice worked for both of them. I added a section to help people become happier with or without PTSD. I think I will make a little money from that.
I was told perhaps I should use simple words which has somewhat curtailed me. The other facet that is challenging is I am taking concepts and trying to make sand tables of them on paper in order to help others visualize PTSD and the many faces of it. I needed to boil down concepts and present them in a coherent manner with the KISS principle to guide me.
So yes tell your organization to hold on the paper. My intent is to transform a D rated paper to an A rated paper. I really am embarrassed with the last edition. I thought it read like shit. Perhaps the only reason some people enjoyed reading it was the content and perspective is much different than anything available now.
I will try my best, and I will even add a mediocre poem at the end. lol
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MAJ Ken Landgren
No sir it had to b done. I had 2 add more meat to it, then I realized it was poorly written. People deserve a better product.
R u prescribed sleep medication? The VA prescribes sleep medication which help me a lot. 1SG Fred "SARGE" Bucci
R u prescribed sleep medication? The VA prescribes sleep medication which help me a lot. 1SG Fred "SARGE" Bucci
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MAJ Ken Landgren
1SG Fred "SARGE" Bucci - That is fantastic. I will make a strong assumption you enjoy cooking? I wrote a cookbook but never made much money. Therefore, I would like to share recipes if you are so inclined. Cooking was a passion until PTSD hit me. PTSD can do odd things to people. I turn my neighbors into friends by giving them food.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
1SG Fred "SARGE" Bucci - Do you know how to turn off the auto spacing between words?
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