While contracting as GM of a Federal body some time ago, I used to travel from Canberra to Sydney’s western suburbs on a regular basis.

I had the choice of driving which took a predictable three hours door to door, or catch a cab to Canberra airport, wait, catch the plane to Mascot, then a cab to my Sydney destination. That method took an unpredictable 2 and a half hours to 4 hours depending on all sorts of variables over which I had no control.

My car would happily sit on the speed limit all the way, a far slower speed than the  alternative aeroplane.

Clearly, the top speed of one component of a journey will not determine the time for the whole journey, which is what really matters.

This applies to everything in life and business.

Find a way to remove the bottlenecks and the speed of your journey, whatever that is, will increase.

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