Why Time Matters - The Most Valuable Resource We Have and a Key Driver Behind Cygnus Sprints 

Time is the most valuable resource you'll have in your career and life. We are given a certain amount of time on this planet, and no matter how successful you are, you can't cheat Father Time. Time waits for no one,. It marches on. You'll never get more time, and once you use it, it's gone forever.  Benjamin Franklin once mused about time in advice to a young tradesman in 1749 "time is money".  It's truer now, than it was then. In a purpose-driven world of today, you could also add the words "time is impact", "time is resilience", "time is experience" or "time is progress".  The world works at breakneck speed and being even a few weeks too late carries with it greater penalty, risk and costs than it ever has,

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Time is a driving force behind Cygnus Sprints. We believe it to be so important we made the tie obvious by putting Sprints in our name. Consulting and advisory needs to incent itself to be quicker. We believe we operate 2X+ faster than some of our peers because we have pulled together five key elements that others haven't:

• Cygnus Sprints has brought together experienced Principals and Advisors who are well down their change and consulting learning curves and aren't making time-wasting mistakes on your dime

• Cygnus Sprints  is capable of building on-demand teams at the drop of a hat, drawn from our deep bench of Cygnus execs and from our 5,000 member Guild, customized to your challenge

• Cygnus Sprints has focused on seven Sprint challenges that organizations most struggle with, and have identified the key scoping questions that are required at each part of their delivery

• Cygnus Sprints has limited our engagements to three months or less to avoid project drift and delay, creating urgency and attention for both sides on the key challenges to be solved 

• Cygnus Sprints has cut the frills normally associated with consulting offerings -  the big meetings, the unnecessary travel, the paper work, the 150 slide presentations and focused on the core of our craft and the think, plan, act and change work itself

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In sport, we know time is important, whether a team can get off a shot before the time clock is up or the importance of 0.1 seconds in a 100 yard race.

In health care, we know time is important, and whether a person lives or dies, often depends on a speedy emergency response or donated organ.

In hospitality, we know time is important, coffee shops know that java-starved customers start getting antsy and impatient if they spend more than 2 minutes waiting for their brew,

In transportation. the trains need to run on time, the planes need to be at the gate, and that taxi/Uber better be at the corner when they say, or chaos ensues. 

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Society runs by time. The trouble is in business frequently you think you have time, but you really don't. Let's fix that.