Godzilla Principle: Planning is Essential

I had a personal party and had invited a few friends to my house. As people assembled and the festivities began, I was focused on entertaining people. My son asked about his friend who was the son of one of our friends. It dawned on me to follow up that person. Unfortunately for him, he had a little car trouble enroute to our house. As soon as I told this to the group assembled, one of the people volunteered to drive and pick him up. During that chit chat that followed, a parent of the friend commented about how we missed out on the Godzilla principle. I have not heard that term before but didn't have time to follow up. The party mood carried on! 

Later the following week, I was attending a meeting group as part of Six Sigma discussions. As the head of PMO and as part of my continuous quest for learning, I took part in local discussions. Some were strangers and we discussed challenges with processes and other ideas. One of them discussed the principle of "Rule of 7". This is a principle that talks about consistent observations that are either increasing or decreasing within the upper and lower threshold levels indicating that a problem is about to happen. My inner voice started asking if anyone knew of this Godzilla principle. 

Lo and behold! It seems that it is in fact a principle that stands out for not monitoring certain activities responsibly and taking appropriate actions to address them. As the person said, "Don't let the problem grow to be a monster and destroy your project." In the context of the "Rule of 7," perhaps, this means that a series of 7 occurrences probably indicate that a larger problem is brewing warranting attention. It is also a principle that people seem to have used to identify the biggest contributing force to a planned delivery. I guess, this then also contributes to the Pareto principle of 80-20 rule! To me, this Godzilla principle also indicates how much we must apply careful proactive reasoning to look for things that could go wrong and build contingencies. 

Now, I am not too sure if this has anything to do with the Godzilla character that roamed the movies destroying anything in its way. I don't know if there is any connection to this character being so huge due to man-made experiments gone awry requiring us to think through the impact of what we do or do not do. However, I learned of a new Godzilla principle as another approach to inculcate preventive and corrective actions as part of risk management thinking. 

Have you heard of such a term? Have you heard any other such principles? Please share.