i'm not exactly sure what's going on, but lately the pacing in my work life has seemed to go from really busy to insanely busy in pretty short order and the mood from everyone around me is that everything needs to be done not yesterday but the week before last. there is such a frenzied, almost chaotic energy in the air that at times can be overbearing but frankly right now i'm finding it mostly annoying.
i mean what is really going to be accomplished by rushing to implementation? and yet this seems to be the standard operating procedure that is being adopted by many of the departments around the company. we're doing our best to remain focused and disciplined in how we operate in my department, but when there's a three ring circus going on around you, it can be more than a little distracting. this fact is particularly true when you are asked to participate in poorly designed processes or meet ridiculous expectations from your organizational partners. the approaches may seem reasonable to others, but frankly i'm not really interested in climbing out of any clown cars or picking up a chair and a whip to tame some lions.
our work is complex and challenging enough. do we really need to add rushing to conclusions and being careless in our approaches to make it even harder?
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