I do not read 37signals’ blog very often; it falls into the “blogs for work” category and there are so many of those, I usually have to limit my reading to the directly-related-to-what-I-am-working-on-right-now sub-category. Anyway, today I had more time and I found this little gem:
The problem with big decisions is that they’re hard to make and hard to change. And once you make one the tendency is to continue to believe you made the right decision even if you didn’t. Big decisions are full of Pride, Politics, Posturing, and Persuasion. Changing direction after making a big decision is admitting you made a big mistake. Humans don’t like admitting that — especially when jobs, careers, and mortgage payments are on the line.
And:
Making tiny decisions doesn’t mean you can’t make big plans or think big ideas. It just means that we believe the best way to achieve those big plans/dreams/ideas is one tiny decision at a time. Tiny decisions allow for easy course correction. Changing your mind about something small is a whole lot easier than changing your mind about something big. (…)
The last part talks about some unavoidable big decisions they had to make, blablabla, but the first few paragraphs are definitely the best advice I have come across in a while.