This past week I had an experience that triggered a reflection I would like to share.

Let me first describe the occasion and set the stage for you.

This situation occurred when my colleagues and I were finding a solution for a specific delivery problem. This happened under significant delivery pressure.  I'm sure many of you can relate to similar circumstances. Some advice on a possible solution arrived quickly. The idea seemed perfect for the situation - it addressed the problem, required minimal changes and could be applied very quickly. At the same time, there were aspects that we didn't fully consider because  they weren't directly connected to delivery. At first glance, we didn't have any other options given all our limitations in timelines and resources. <EOSD>

To be frank, I was far from comfortable making a positive decision on the proposed approach. I started to ask myself questions:

> "What happened? What don't you like? What would the ideal solution look like for you? Do you see better idea with all limitations that we have?"

After some reflection I identified a few reasons why I wasn't so happy. We became highly focused on our limitations. As a result we were close to making a decision in favor of the first idea that came up. The reason for this was the high pressure. We did this partly without being fully conscious of it. It just seemed workable given our current circumstances. But I did not have confidence in a such quickly generated solution was the best one.

Conversation kept going from another side:

> "Ok, you can spend too long finding the ideal solution and  miss delivery. Hence, you can miss the market, client, be non-compliant, etc. And then you and business in big trouble."

And it is truly right, you can be with perfect solution in the margins of history. In our modern world everyone is trying to be at destination first because first takes it all.

I asked myself, does that explanation satisfy me enough and make me feel happier. I told myself:

> "Sure, mostly, but..."

My internal conversation continued:

> "Why is there a "but"? Where is your "BUT" coming from?"

And then more rhetorical questions started to come:
1. Pressure is always there - every day, every minute - in business, work and personal life. Should we go with the first idea that comes to mind? What if we did this often, or even always?
2. What are the risks?

The risk I see is that quick decisions are often done under conditions of minimum considerations. That can become even worse because of other factors like:
- Quick resolution can introduce new problems.
- The habit of solving problems quickly can easily become a bad one. Next time, even without pressure, you may still make decisions quickly.
- If a bad habit is the habit of a manager it can easily be learned by a team. This kind of example sets a poor precedent.
- And snowball effect when one decision limits you in your future steps.

You can ask me:
> "Ok. We have dilemma here. Be quick and effective now and in the future. What would you do then?"

The best approach I found for balancing between quick solution and keeping confidence is: 

A quick solution is much better than having **no solution** at all. Find any resolution as quick as possible. Make GoNoGo decision for that solution quickly. Immediately start preparation to apply it. In parallel  continue to ask if there are reasons can be still found to not be happy with the idea. Think broadly about "now" and "future". Try to find better approach to solve newly found reasons. In your head discard all your limitations and pressure. Don't stop yourself in such reflection. Continue to look for other reasons to seek better solutions. Rethink  new ideas that leads to better solution. Once you have your "ideal" solution and are mostly happy with it, consider how you can stick to it while adapting to your current limitations

I see high level of agility in such a way of approaching of problems. Also there is a high probability that you will find your "ideal" solution even before you finish preparing to apply the first idea. If there is still enough time and resources, you can apply better solution.
The most important thing is that it instills a good habit in you and your team to think critically everywhere and under any circumstances.

Hey, Everyone

Today I want to start my blog. I have been thinking about this for long and now I decided. I want to explain the reasons. <EOSD>

At start i want to descibe to you few situations.

First is when you want to talk but the words that comes out aren't what you really mean.

Second is when you hear someone express thoughts you've had many times but couldn't quite find the words for

And third one is when you want to talk with someone but dont know where to start. Or you start talking, but after few mins, even you lose interest in the conversation 

If you are familar with that situations then you understand me. So I want to talk with anyone and dont be limited by my language. I want to grow my communications skills and hope blogging will help me.


Now, as I'm starting, I am full of determination and eager to write about broad range of the topics I will bring here, but still my main focus is on my communications skills. And I feel that only way how to do this by getting you interesting, my reader. To give you feeling what kind of topics i think now for this blog:
- **Engineering** I am engineer in my core. So i will share some practical thought and expirience that I have when build IT systems  
- **Something interesting during the day** Just regular human expirience within one of my day. May be story from my life.
- **Photography** One of my hobbies is photography. I make some shots and will share here.
- **Management** My career as maneger is not so big and every day i discover new things for me. Will share here my personal expirience on that.
- **Philosofy** is my imterest. I love to broaden my mind beyond daily routines and explore eternal problems. Will share here what i discovered new in this latest. 
- Maybe **politics, geoplitics**. Yes, politics. I am originally from Ukraine where now big war is happening. There politics directly impact humans lives and that is now a lot in my mind. I will share here my latest thoughts on this.  

I'm excited to bring you along for this joerney and look forward to sharing more in my upcomings posts. 

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