When you have a bias for inaction, you can talk yourself out of doing anything.
Do you hear, or participate, in these conversations?
- “We don’t need to write PAG for this future operation because we there isn’t a final CONOP.”
- “We don’t need to write a briefing card for this past operation because no reporters are asking about it.”
- “We don’t need to answer that media query because the reporter shouldn’t have asked those questions.”
- “We don’t need a graphic or video about this new initiative because words should be sufficient.”
- “We don’t want to talk about that new project because it’s stupid, or unorganized.”
- “We don’t need to work with those staff officers because nobody believes in them.”
Catch yourself, and your team, trying to talk yourselves out of doing work.
We have to do work. We have to try new shit. We have to take action. We have to find and create opportunities where they may not be obvious.
It only takes one good reason.
(Photo by Staff Sgt. Russell Klika, DVIDS)
