randsHumans do their best work when they feel safe and supported. There is a contingent of humans who believe they do their best work when the stakes are high, everyone is yelling, and the deadline is imminent. This is called “surviving,” and while survival is fun, it’s not good work.
MikeStok@rands My experience is that merely surviving is a grind. Flourishing might be fun though.
I often think of Peopleware in situations like this, maybe this quote:
“People under time pressure don’t work better—they just work faster.
In order to work faster, they may have to sacrifice the quality of the product and of their own work experience.”
Excerpt From
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams, Third Edition by Tom DeMarco