Don't immediately assume the worst possible outcome is the most likely. Believe in long shots. Reward reasonable bets even if they don't work out. Encourage fast decision making for choices that can be easily reverted.
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There are organization values we all agree on -- respect, honesty, freedom to speak out. I think optimism is an extremely important, yet overlooked one. We should all do more to foster optimism in our organizations (and in our society / civilization).
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You can't build the future if you don't believe in it
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I dunno. Johnson's 'optimism' over COVID killed a lot of people in the UK. Sure there's a lot of times optimism is better but when there's risk of disaster it really isn't.
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1. It has to be the kind of optimism that moves to action, not to complacency 2. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst 3! Work on increasing the odds of the best and decrease the odds of the worst, until the best is not just possible but inevitablehttps://twitter.com/trylks/status/1396914752035692553 …
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I don’t agree at all. Many organizations are afflicted and even obsessed with excessive optimism.
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Couldn’t agree more. People should interject with “yes and....” instead of “yeh but.....”
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Tuning the optimism is important: the startup blinding itself to that product doesn't work or the org refusing to see that it isn't helping anymore are as big failure modes as pessimism. But individual can-do attitude that leads to testing and quationing is helpful for tuning.
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