Urgency culture
Urgency culture feels productive. It isn't.
When everything is urgent, nothing is. Teams stop planning and thinking and start reacting. Quality drops because there's no time to do things properly. People feel burned out because they're constantly running on adrenaline.
Urgency becomes the default excuse for poor planning. "We needed it yesterday" replaces "We should have planned this better."
It destroys collaboration. There's no time for meaningful conversations, just frantic handoffs, messages, long emails and misunderstood instructions.
Worst of all, urgency culture creates a false sense of progress. Moving faster in the wrong direction just gets you lost quicker.
Constant activity doesn't lead to meaningful achievement, it continually undermines it.
