Quote Originally Posted by cojo View Post
As I thought about this, I realized a distinction is made between crises that occur because of inadequate planning/execution (avoidable crises) and crises that occur mostly because of external, unexpected changes in circumstances (unavoidable crises).
Excellent description of the 2 types of major crises.

One thing I would add is that GTD can help with the avoidable crises if you use them to develop a checklist for next time. I don't use checklists as much as I should but the ones I do have are extremely valuable.

GTD also allows you to learn how to triage crises so that you can deal with the most urgent at one time. My unavoidable crises are usually during lambing but I have a checklist of items that I go over so I can determine which sheep needs my assistance now and while it's stressful I can usually manage to cover all the bases, even when they are ewes in labor that need help scattered across the field.