Fantastic framing here. The quadrant 3 observation hits hard because I've been in that exact situation where kindness became a shield agianst making hard operational decisions. What actually helped us was reframing businesslike processes not as cold efficiency but as acts of kindness to future-us. Making SMART plans feels tedius at first, but it's honestly kinder than scrambling later. Great stuff.
Yes! That's exactly the thinking I'm concerned about here, the idea that there's a conflict between being kind and businesslike, when in fact they're prerequisites for each other.
Fantastic framing here. The quadrant 3 observation hits hard because I've been in that exact situation where kindness became a shield agianst making hard operational decisions. What actually helped us was reframing businesslike processes not as cold efficiency but as acts of kindness to future-us. Making SMART plans feels tedius at first, but it's honestly kinder than scrambling later. Great stuff.
Yes! That's exactly the thinking I'm concerned about here, the idea that there's a conflict between being kind and businesslike, when in fact they're prerequisites for each other.