Why do we try to make decisions way before they need to be made?
Put it another way: what will you be having for dinner 162 days from right now?*
I don’t know, and I’ll bet you don’t either. Unless it’s a special event, there’s no earthly reason to know this far in advance.
And yet, I know there are leaders who plan other details that far in advance. Details that should be similarly malleable and are much better decided much closer to the day in question.
Just one example: I choose some repertoire well in advance; other rep has to be decided after I meet the group and learn enough about them to decide what will work well for them.
There are so many ways in which we can have a tendency to try to make decisions before they need to be made. But we change more than we think, and those decisions might be just as wrong, when we get to the event, as a dinner I picked for myself 162 days in advance.
* full disclosure – I’m writing this post 162 days before July 8…on January 27. I have no idea what I’ll be having for dinner tomorrow, let alone July 8.