The worst thing anyone can say to me when I see an ineffective procedure, system, etc., is "Well, that is just the way it has always been done." What profane ignorance! I had a boss who called this management by folklore. It is still one of the most brilliant things I have ever heard. Unfortunately, this is the way most management seems to be done. In the dogmatic pursuit of a few outdated axioms, most bosses proceed to fuck up management in story book ways: It is predictable, profound and always bears a moral that goes largely unheeded. And thus, history repeats itself at the expense of thousands of talented minds that might otherwise have remained just motivated and idealistic enough to work to make a difference. Of course, far more brilliant minds than mine have been saying these things for centuries, but these heretics have been forced to recant, go into exile, or worse.
Here is my moral, which will likely go unheeded: If you do not posses the mental faculties and self confidence to reassess your ways of doing things periodically, you are a bad manager. Go flip burgers.
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