It's a good idea to demonstrate a certain “sense of urgency” in one's skills, something sought-after and valued by companies in a world where, as we keep repeating, everything keeps speeding up.
When urgency is counterproductive
This famous sense of urgency, which is in some people's DNA or an acquired skill for others, doesn't always manifest itself in the best possible way.
Just as we say that when everything is important, nothing is important, when everything is urgent, nothing is urgent. Urgency contains a notion of prioritization in relation to what is not...
In a former post, I mentioned Clay Shirky's "Here comes everybody".
One big question about everything people do outside the organization is "where do they...