The Arsonist
Act-now requests that can arrive at any hour. You value speed and want problems handled before they grow. It isn’t just the fire drills.
Save your quiz results, ask your team what they see, and build a Traction Shift.
Five habits to watch
What an Arsonist tends to do, and what it costs the people around you.
You send it marked urgent, whatever time it is
Your team feels: They keep one eye on Slack all evening in case something lands
You ping across channels until someone answers
Your team feels: They stop planning and start bracing for the next ping
You drop it in the channel with no owner and no deadline
Your team feels: Everyone assumes it is theirs, or nobody does
You ask for today what could have waited a week
Your team feels: Their real deadlines slip to make room for your false one
You say "quick one" and mean "drop everything"
Your team feels: They context-switch for something that costs them an hour
How it shows up
- Marks things urgent at any hour
- Pings across channels until someone answers
- Asks for today what could wait a week
When you shift, your team gets
- ✓ Their evenings back
- ✓ Trust that one message is the whole ask
- ✓ One clear owner, and the rest keep working