Carragee Consulting

Almost 2 years ago, in a hurry to get to daycare I grabbed a reflector band out of a bike junk box and strapped a bag to the seat to get out the door.

I also have a $150 mountain man front rank I should install.

At this point my temporary solution to carrying things is going to outlast my usage of this bike with the baby seat because my daughter will age out of using the seat before I get round to installing the front rack.

My temporary solution is too good.

There are so many implications of this behavioral truism, that change happens only when the current friction is greater than the resistance to change:

– sometimes introducing an MVP dooms a more robust solution

– sometimes what you thought was an excellent mockup becomes the dashboard in use

– sometimes your infrastructure is woefully inadequate and a looming disaster because there is no acceptable time for transition

– sometimes a better solution can be developed while the bandaid solution still holds and you can leapfrog at lower cost

The point is, resistance to change is real. Working well enough is not always inadequate or even suboptimal, but for those tasked with driving more than incrementalism a temporary solution may be your greatest obstacle.