A mentor taught the speaker a five-minute rule: solve quick problems immediately, and for bigger ones, spend five minutes making concrete progress like booking a call or messaging a colleague. The goal is staying in action mode instead of getting stuck in endless debate.
One of my first mentors told me this. He said, Leila, if you can solve the problem in 5 minutes, you better do it right now. And that stuck with me since then. And if I can't solve it in 5 minutes, I can at least get it started in 5 minutes. I can book the call, I can reach out to the person, I can make somebody aware, I can send a Slack message. I'm always trying to be in action mode because a lot of the times companies are slow because they're not acting, they're just debating.
