Pressure Without a Plan. (opens in new tab)

When we launched Digg v4, the old site turned off, but the new site didn’t turn on. There was a lot of pressure to get things working, but no one knew what to do about it. It took almost a month to get it wholly functioning. It was not a pleasant month, with many false starts while we tried to dig out of launching an unfinished, desperate product. That launch was a foundational early career experience for me. However, it was not a unique one, as many leaders inject that sort of pressure into ...