It’s always faster to do something slower and right, than wrong and twice.
If you take an hour to get something done but have to redo it later, it doesn’t just cost you an hour. No, there’s the time it took to discover the problem, time to gather resources to work on it again, and time away from whatever you were going to do instead.
It’s expensive to rush through work. Most people understand this. Even though it’s hard to forecast stuff that has to be done really well, it’s easy to understand why people take shortcuts in the first place.
Pain.
The more skin you have in the game, the more likely you’ll take time to do things right. Mistakes that cost you a lot drive you to be more careful in the beginning. Software engineers who get paged in the middle of a vacation to deal with a website outage caused by a bug in their code are more likely to spend time doing it right the first time, next time.
Benefit.
When you don’t stand to benefit from the work, quality is secondary to your own time and energy – it’s just how people are wired. NFL players in the last year of their contract who want more money next year tend to perform statistically better than their previous years.
Teams have better outcomes when they personally experience the pain of mistakes or the benefit of the work.