06/10/2026
Proverbs says the plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.
I think about that verse a lot when owners tell me they are "moving fast." Because there is a difference between fast and hasty, and most of us know which one we are actually doing.
Fast is prepared. Fast has a plan, a budget, and a way to measure if it worked. Fast can slow down when something changes.
Hasty is reactive. Hasty says yes to the client we should have said no to. Hasty hires before the role is defined. Hasty buys the software before anyone asks what problem we are solving.
Diligence is not the opposite of speed. It is the foundation under it. The owners I watch build things that last are not the slowest in the room. They are the ones who refuse to confuse motion with progress.
What is one decision this week you are about to make hasty when you could make it diligent instead?