Bike-shedding helps
- when a difference of opinion is evident, you want to avoid a serious conversation.
- You are just opening a conversation with a stranger or casual acquaintance
- When you lack decision-making powers or competence on the more significant issues
Bike-shedding hurts
- When important decisions are postponed due to bike-shedding, the entire plan is adversely affected, emphasizing the urgency of addressing these crucial matters.
- When it is used as a strategy to evade serious topics (yes, it matters which side of the fence you are on the same strategy 😊)
- When bike-shedding is used as a diversionary tactic, attacking others for inconsequential errors to shift focus from their own failures, it underscores the need to stay focused on the central issues.
QUOTE TO MAKE US THINK
I’ve forgotten how to think bigger. Instead I just make smaller things better.
Creative Experiments and More 
Some meetings can be painful, especially when you feel like nothing is getting accomplished.
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True.
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Until this day, I had never heard the term “bike-shedding”. I had to look it up. I feel like our whole world is caught up in “bike-shedding”. We are missing the first for the trees.
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I heard it for the first time too 🙂
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