We need to keep learning e.g. about people; and we need to keep doing or delivering e.g. in a business. So which is more important? Delivering perhaps (it’s certainly likely to be more urgent), but what if the delivery is weak because we haven’t yet learned some vitally relevant information?
If learning is the priority then perhaps the opportunity or expectation will pass before we have made ourselves ready.
Obviously, it’s a balance. Do you have it in the right place? Could you benefit from moving learning up a bit?
Sometimes, of course, we need to act in order to learn: We can’t merely think our way to the right solution. We need to gather some experience of the issue. We need to attempt delivery and see what happens.
Which is more likely to make a long-term, sustainable difference: Learning or delivering? Probably learning, I’d say.
How do you balance this out?