course correction
Changing your direction
Course correction is an adjustment to stay on track toward a goal.
Originally navigational—a ship or spacecraft alters heading to compensate for drift or error.
Now common in business and politics for strategic adjustments: The company needs a course correction after disappointing sales.
A course correction acknowledges something isn't working without abandoning the destination entirely.
- adjustmentAlteration to improve fit
- recalibrationAdjusting measurement standards again
- pivotPoint of rotation
- change of directionShift in trajectory
- redirectSend in new direction
minor tweak · realignment · back on track · steering · right the ship · navigation · compass · rudder · detour · midstream · trajectory · feedback · tweak · fine-tuning · autopilot · drift · deviation · waypoint
- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
- alternate routesbypass, detour, alternate route, reroute, diversion
- course
- navigationcompass, compass rose, signs, charts, navbar
- Plan Adjustmentspivoting, recalibrating, reprioritizing, scaling back, plan B
- correctionscorrections, fix, fixing, rectification, emendation
course correctionstraight ahead
In a line, unchanged direction
full steam ahead · pressing on · status quo · linear progression · onward
course correctiondoubling down
Strengthening a risky commitment
denial · willful blindness · head in the sand · throwing good money after bad · inaction
course correctionrigidity
State of being unbending
inflexibility · stubbornness · obstinacy · intransigence · dogmatism
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