tactics to flank / shift a ferocious analyzer from paralysis to go meaning what sometimes over things overs hesitates the landing and planning and planning and planning well there's a couple things here if the person is above you or below you in the chain of command so if they're below you in the chain of command you you know you explain to them you say look we don't need perfection we're not gonna have 100% solution we don't have 100% of the information that's a good enough solution we need to move forward let's execute and you know what
I'll take root if things go wrong wrong don't worry about it I'll take responsibility for it I'm not gonna blame you which is what you're gonna do anyways as a good leader so that's what you can do for there below you in the chain of command if they're above you in the chain of command guess what same thing you gonna tell the same thing like hey boss we don't need perfection here look boss we're not gonna get all the information we need we're not gonna get a hundred percent solution we got a 90 percent solution
and let's go for it and if things do go wrong you can blame me I don't care so boom the weather that are above your you know below you the chain of command you might change your tact or your verbage a little bit but it's the same same overall concept you've got to get them to understand that we don't need perfection we need to move forward and the other thing is you explained the cost of not moving the cost of staying still the cost of being reactive instead of proactive in basically the cost of not
being aggressive because that's what we're talking about is a lack of aggression and so what does that look like well you explain to them that the longer we sit the better position the enemy gets into the longer we wait the less we know about what is actually happening think about that one the more you sit here and you're planning the less we know what's going on out there the things are happening they're changing they're evolving the enemy is maneuvering there's developments on the battlefield or in the marketplace and you don't even know because you're sitting
in the planning space hmm the longer we wait the less time we have to recover if something does go wrong hmm so if we sit here and plan for 47 days and on the 40th day we set up out we start to execute something goes wrong we're not gonna make the 50 day mark because we and spent all that time planning so the longer that you're sitting around the last time you have to recover and adapt and adjust and the longer that you wait while you're doing planning the less relevant your plan actually becomes so
that's what you need to make people understand and there's people that are just habitual and chronic ferocious analyzers and those are people you gotta watch but you've got to continually just get through their head that the more we sit the more the enemy maneuvers and if we let them maneuver on us anymore we're gonna get killed mm-hmm that's it pretty easy well it's not easy it's a simple concept it's hard to get people out of their own heads just like this like everything else it's hard for the ferocious analyzer to recognize themselves as that they
think they're doing a good job they think they're they think they're actually being thorough and you're a wild man you're a cowboy are you crazy yeah no I'm not crazy ever one time with my first deployment to Iraq they said hey John this is after I've been there for a while and they wanted for some reason they wanted to know the minimum requirements for us to go out on an operation and I said I just need a vicinity of the target and of radio frequency to talk to the local conventional units there mmm they were
like well don't you need air support oh she is like all these other things I was like no we'll figure it out mmm just send us yeah we'll go and there was other things that we would do as we'd move to our target we aligned things up and we'd but we we'd be good but sometimes people wanted to plan out every last detail well and that doesn't work the details are not gonna stay the same the things that you're planning on are gonna change so don't sit there and plan every last detail because it's not
gonna help you man that's that's actually a pretty good point never even thought about how you say if you spend too much time planning you know and then you jump in the game all late it's like dang you have no time to make any adjustment it reacts yeah you better go perfect cuz that's all that's a one shot you got at it and guess what it's not gonna go perfect cuz things don't go perfect yeah things are not gonna go perfect not gonna happen no such thing as flawless execution Dave Burke just wrote an article
that was on Business Insider it's what it was like flawless execution doesn't happen yeah you know he was a gun senior instructor for three years he knows about flying and he knows how hard they worked to towards flawless execution but it didn't exist the false execution was was analyzing their mistakes seeing what they can improve upon that was the father's execution for them it wasn't the actual act of flawless execution they you know they had for all this debriefing flawless analyzation of what they did wrong yeah but it wasn't gonna be perfect obstinate knows no
such thing doesn't happen yeah so if you're sitting and planning that trying to make that happen it's not gonna work for you it's don't do it
