Quick response times can be helpful, but at the risk of being disastrous. Transparen strives to strike a balance between the need to respond quickly in emergencies, and the need to practice self-restraint and disciplined waiting.

Hasty decisions are often mistakes, and there is a fine line between decisiveness and haste.

Haste is all about a lack of proportion - is the magnitude of the commitment very large compared to the amount of time that was spent pondering and deliberating on it? Is the commitment fully understood? What would happen if the commitment were not met? Is the consequence of failure more than twice the amount of resources being pledged to the project?