What Speed Means to Marketplace Listeners

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I Live By Speed (June 27)
Speed is important to me in my life because I live by it. I work for Gomez, an Internet quality measurement firm, and we believe that speed and availability of Web sites is vitally important to a customer experience at that Web site. (See http://gpn.gomez.com for more information.)

I think speed of a Web site is important because it builds confidence in your customer that the service you are providing is credible. I would feel nervous about transacting at a banking or retail Web site that performed slowly. It would make me feel as if the site operators weren't taking care with my personal information.

As speed pertains to me, I love it. The faster things are, the more things I can get done. Without speed, I would never be able to do all the things I would love to do.

However, there are certain things I like and need to do slowly, such as golf and rock climbing. These two disciplines require patience and concentration, and there is no other way to perform them well other than slow. (Oh yeah, I eat slow as well).

Richard Eckel
Boston , MA

Happy to Be Relaxed (June 26)
I am one of the lucky people who lives at a very relaxed pace. By my own choice I left a fast-paced high-pressure job to take a minimum-wage volunteer sector job. I like my job very much; but at quitting time I leave it behind and slow down to do the things I like.

John Reynolds
Prescott, Ontario

Speed Is Choice (June 26)
Speed is about many things. One of the parts of speed is called CHOICE. The ability to try something, and then to do it over (and over) again until it is determined to be (a) acceptable or (b) unacceptable—i.e., this isn't going to work out for me—is a very powerful force. Scenario Analysis is now a complete occupational environment. Consider building something like the Brooklyn Bridge or Hoover Dam—and only getting one shot at making it correct. Now we can build the International Space Station several times, in order to determine the "optimal" design. Image if the Renaissance Italians had pre-tested the Tower of Pisa? In the Air Force they say, "Speed is Life."

J. C. Boakes
Westampton , NJ

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