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The trucks running through your head
Do you have, get, make time to think?
Or is your head mainly a six-lane highway full of traffic and trucks trying to make their way through day in and day out?
The highway metaphor and the cultural components from the book More Time to Think by Nancy Kline.
Proverbial highways with trucks that create a constant noise always seem distracting, preventing you from focusing.
Highways with trucks built and operated by managers worried about company profit, their bonuses, and your productivity to help them achieve those.
Otherwise stated, is your culture one of control, speed, and urgency?
Hence the highway of goals, KPIs, OKRs, meetings, reviews, more meetings, and more reviews.
A never-ending flow of to-do’s running through your head. With only one purpose.
To make sure you get stuff done.
Or…
Do you have time to think within the boundaries of an average workweek?
Most people with trucks in their heads do their thinking late evenings or during the weekend.
If they get time to think at all.
