Trains don't turn corners 🚂

Your momentum is the most important thing to nurture. Creating clarity helps your delivery train move fast.

The momentum of your delivery train is the lifeblood of your organization.

Short term you can squeeze numbers and make decisions, but there’s no denying the core physics principles of energy. If the decisions you make create the friction that causes your momentum to stall, you will slow to a crawl.

We can think of the delivery momentum of your organization like a train. There are 2 things that train does not do efficiently:

1. Turn corners - trains don’t turn corners very well, especially square corners!

2. Stop and Start - there’s a reason that train stations are not like bus stops. Trains are inefficient at constantly stopping and starting

So consider the throughput that your team is delivering like a train.

The more clarity you have, the further out in front that your train can see nice straight tracks and the faster it can go.

Create confusion, uncertainty or randomness: the train stops.

Have a great idea and a pivot: you are asking for the train to turn a corner - not impossible, sometimes necessary but very expensive.

choo choo! 🚂