Big ships can’t stop fast, so good captains decide early. The bigger your group, the sooner you call it.

Decisions take much longer to travel through a group than through a person. Twelve people need telling, arranging and re-arranging, and every one of those steps adds a day you did not budget for, which is why a call that feels early to you is often already late for them. Size turns hesitation into chaos.

Work backwards from when people actually need to know, not from when you will feel certain. Make the call with eighty percent of the information and tell everyone at once. Changing a decision later is cheaper than making it in a rush.