“It’s easy to chase small wins that make us feel successful without ever facing the real barriers that hold us back. It’s easy to adjust something at the surface level while leaving the core problem untouched. But if we want to grow as people and as organizations, we must choose to do hard things.”
https://blog.gembaacademy.com/2025/10/20/do-hard-things/ (via https://mastodon.online/@jchyip/115460065346346036 @jchyip)
Not only if you want to grow. If a team chases only small wins for long enough, it will get stuck sooner or later. Seemingly simple things are hard because once you peel back the layer of patches to get to the part you want to change, you find you need to fix something else first. And to do that, you need to address this other issue. And to do that, … you get the picture.
Fixing issues that have been patched over many times is even harder than addressing them properly the first time around. So, viewed from a higher perspective, “doing the hard thing” right away may actually be the easier path. The challenge lies in adopting this higher perspective.
#ContinuousImprovement