Do you speed then think?

Speed drive 10-20% growth in business

Slow thinking drive over 30% long-term results.

When you speed in business = you stop thinking.

I noticed business leaders and entrepreneurs misunderstand speed:

Speed through understanding the way they would with execution.

If you rush to understand:

- The business challenge you're facing
- Customer needs
- Market trends

It leads to mistakes and poor decision-making, even if you see slight improvements. Not sustainable in the long run.

Resist the urge to rush product launches, capture share, or outpace rivals without “proper understanding.”

Speed is for executing:

- When you have a solution
- Spot an opportunity,
- Or understand where things are heading.

"If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem."

— Albert Einstein

Here’s how I think slowly to understand the needs, desires, and problems:

1. Ask "Why?" multiple times (root cause analysis)
2. Clarify the impact—who is affected and how?
3. Conduct stakeholder interview
4. Review customer feedback and market trends
5. Create a process map to visualize inefficiencies.
6. Recognize internal vs. external constraints
7. Prioritize issues based on impact and feasibility.
8. Ideate, validate and iterate.

Turning needs into creative opportunity isn’t a math, can be solved quickly by following a rule.

P.S. Can you think fast and act fast?
Slow thinking drive over 30% long-term results.

When you speed in business = you stop thinking.

I noticed business leaders and entrepreneurs misunderstand speed:

Speed through understanding the way they would with execution.

If you rush to understand:

- The business challenge you're facing
- Customer needs
- Market trends

It leads to mistakes and poor decision-making, even if you see slight improvements. Not sustainable in the long run.

Resist the urge to rush product launches, capture share, or outpace rivals without “proper understanding.”

Speed is for executing:

- When you have a solution
- Spot an opportunity,
- Or understand where things are heading.

"If I had an hour to solve a problem, I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem."

— Albert Einstein

Here’s how I think slowly to understand the needs, desires, and problems:

1. Ask "Why?" multiple times (root cause analysis)
2. Clarify the impact—who is affected and how?
3. Conduct stakeholder interview
4. Review customer feedback and market trends
5. Create a process map to visualize inefficiencies.
6. Recognize internal vs. external constraints
7. Prioritize issues based on impact and feasibility.
8. Ideate, validate and iterate.

Turning needs into creative opportunity isn’t a math, can be solved quickly by following a rule.

P.S. Can you think fast and act fast?

Thanks for reading, we will talk in the next letter.

Ahmed

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