Another of our values:
The facing page has this quote: “We admire people who get stuff done. While there’s a place for planning, thinking and process it is better to try – and try well – and fail than not to try at all.”
This is an approach I use in lots of my life. Not always, but I do try to get things done, and make a strong effort in doing so. I ask the kids I coach to do the same. The effort is what matters; it’s more important than the outcome. The outcomes matter, but we can accept mistakes.
This is one of those values I think ought to be more prominently displayed and discussed, in most organizations.
I have a copy of the Book of Redgate from 2010. This was a book we produced internally about the company after 10 years in existence. At that time, I’d been there for about 3 years, and it was interesting to learn a some things about the company. This series of posts looks back at the Book of Redgate 15 years later.
Voice of the DBA 
In my cave rescue training we have a topic called “the mother of all discussions”. It means when folks get bogged down discussing solutions rather than trying them.
In an early training session, we had to move a patient in a litter through a very slow space with about 1/2″ of water. Folks started discussing if perhaps we should go up and around via a longer, but higher and drier route. While they were discussing it, three of us decided to simply drag the litter through. We did so and waited.
About 30 seconds later, the rest of the group had made their decision. And then one looked down, “Where’s the patient?”
In the time they had taken to discussion a solution, we had solved it.
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I do think it’s worth discussing, but it has to be quick. People do get bogged down in debate. It ought to be a quick presentation by people and then a vote. Or an experiment
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