Respect time
Time is our most constrained resource, so we are cognisant of it in everything we do and every interaction we have with others. We take our own time to communicate clearly before amplifying noise and consuming others' time. We always consider spending more money to save time. Dawn recognizes the need for overtime on an irregular basis but respects the need for employees to have recovery time to ensure their own well-being.
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Back to the universal principles
Calibration
Under, just right, over.
| Situation | Under | Just Right | Over |
|---|---|---|---|
| A meeting that could be a note | Holds the meeting because it is on the calendar. | Sends the note, asks for the decision in writing, and cancels the meeting. | Refuses every meeting, including the one where a decision actually requires the room. |
| A message that wastes the reader | Sends a brain dump and lets three people hunt for the ask. | Puts the ask, the deadline, and the context they need in the first lines. | Over-edits a two-line ask for an hour and the decision window closes. |
| Spending money to save time | Saves the money and spends a week of people on a problem a purchase would remove. | Spends the money when the time it gives back is the scarcer resource, and says why. | Spends freely and calls every purchase a time saving, including ones that create more work. |
| Overtime two weeks running | Schedules the second week as if the first had no cost. | Treats the second week as exceptional, cuts scope, and puts recovery time on the calendar. | Bans any extra hour even when a one-time push would prevent a larger mess. |
| Consuming other people's time | Drops by, calls, and forwards threads before you have made the question clear. | Does the thinking first, then asks for the smallest slice of their time that you still need. | Will not ask at all, and burns your own week on something they could have answered. |
| Recovery as part of the work | Praises the person who skipped recovery and quietly expects the same. | Plans the recovery when you plan the overtime, and does not treat it as a favor. | Protects recovery by slipping a commitment you could have reduced in scope instead. |
Further reading
Sources and essays on this principle.
- About Dawn Aerospace
The public mission this tenet is meant to serve.
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- Careers at Dawn Aerospace
How the company presents the work to people who would live this tenet.
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