We live in a last minute, opt-out culture. Don't want to meet up with friends because you've got something better to do? Call and cancel, last minute. Leave all of your options open because something better might come along and when it does mass-communicate your change of heart in the blink of an eye.
Translate this to a professional setting and the pernicious effects of last minute culture translate into: noone listening at meetings because things will get mopped afterwards via email, a large number of first drafts sten-gunned out before any real thinking's been done, the finishing process getting later and later in the project development path.
Isn't it time for a 'First Time' movement featuring a manifesto of:
Thou shalt not send any internal emails
Thou shalt prepare a first draft that is as good as possible
Thou shalt schedule meetings and not cancel them
Thou shalt prepare project plans and carry them out
more to follow, this is only a first draft....
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