A plastic grocery bag is not a threat to your car. Your car will crush it. Your feet could crush it. Even a baby’s tiny, weak feet would crush it.
But a plastic bag 100 feet away from you, in the middle of the road while you’re driving poses a threat. Why? Because you can’t tell what it is. It could be a rock or a bag of nails. And those would do some damage if you don’t swerve out of the way.
If you’re a giant Chevy Tahoe you don’t have the ability to get close enough to the object before making your decision to swerve or not. If there’s anything in the road you have to get out of the way as soon as it comes into view, because by the time you see what it actually is it’s too late to make a decision. You’re heavy, not maneuverable and sluggish
It might have turned out to be a plastic bag…so you just got knocked off course by something that poses no actual threat to you.
On the other hand, if you’re a Ferrari, you can get a lot closer to the potential threat before figuring out if you need to change course. If it’s just a plastic bag, you can identify it as such and you don’t even have to slow down. If it’s a bag of nails, you slow down a tiny bit, swerve, and then your back to 100mph.
The object in the road 100 feet away says a lot more about you than it does the potential problem.
How quickly can your team swerve? How efficiently can you make important decisions that have consequences (positive or negative)? When you see a potential problem is it immediately debilitating, or can you maneuver to find out more and react/respond more accurately?
I’m always interested in your perspective, whether affirming or dissenting. Continue the conversation anytime: gabethebassplayer@gmail.com