Emergency response is exactly this. You can’t be incompetent, but whatever plan you execute is going to be far from perfect.
I also hate the misused “it’s just a bandaid!” cliché. Yeah, no shit: it’s not a permanent fix, but it can keep a problem from getting worse until you can address the actual cause. Surgery means fuck all if the patient bleeds out on the table.
Yup. I keep saying, “an ok plan applied immediately and vigorously is infinitely better than a perfect plan ten minutes too late”.
Emergency response is exactly this. You can’t be incompetent, but whatever plan you execute is going to be far from perfect.
I also hate the misused “it’s just a bandaid!” cliché. Yeah, no shit: it’s not a permanent fix, but it can keep a problem from getting worse until you can address the actual cause. Surgery means fuck all if the patient bleeds out on the table.
i read this attributed to Patton: “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”