Time for identifying and fixing mistakes. How fast can your organization recognize something isn't working and course correct?
ERROR → DETECT → CORRECT
Errors are detected in hours, fixed in days. Systems have built-in feedback loops. Failure is data, not disgrace. Post-mortems lead to actual changes.
Errors persist until someone retires or gets fired. Systemic problems become "how we do things." The same mistakes recur decade after decade.
Error Correction determines learning velocity. Organizations that can't fix mistakes can't improve.
The cost of an error isn't the error itself. It's how long it compounds. A mistake caught in a day costs a day. The same mistake persisting for five years costs five years of compounded dysfunction.
In high-error-correction organizations, mistakes are learning opportunities. In low-error-correction organizations, mistakes are career-ending events. When failure is punished, people hide failures. Hidden failures compound.
A/B testing everything. Failed experiments killed in days, not years.
Two-pizza teams can reverse decisions. Bias toward action over analysis.
Medical errors persist for decades. Systemic issues require regulatory intervention.
Curriculum changes take years. Bad teaching practices protected by tenure.