Post by Gustavo Rocha, lawyer and consultant in management, IT and quality for law firms. He’s the author of Gestão.Adv.br (content in Portuguese only):

“Direction is more important than speed “(Roberto Scaringella)

This also recalls for Seneca’s words:“If you don’t know where you are heading to, no wind will favour you”

More and more teams are focused on achieving goals, results and growing, growing and growing. But, to what purpose? A financial one?

Yeah, why feel surprised? Finance is not a purpose. Purposes are tangible plans or dreams yet to be fulfilled. It won’t be speed that will make them happen.

No direction means you don´t know where you are going to.

If you have no direction, any planning will be no help at all.

Use speed only when you know where to go.

Speed up only with a plan.

Speed when you get the big picture.

Setting a fast pace to your team but no direction, will keep a yearn to succeed that is not possible to know if it can be attained.

Reach your goals by planning. Keep the speed within your planning. Just running is for those with no plan.

Exercise planning your goals day by day, whether they are short, medium or long term ones. Update your goals. Write them down.

To conclude, make your planning the speedometer for your practice.