Is It Written In Stone?

How many times in our workplaces are our reasons for doing certain things in certain ways based forward the fact that it's our policy, it's in our mission statement, it's in the contract, or it's always the way it's been done...? When policies are written and agreed on the subject of by a designated group, they many times hold an aura of permanence, and take forward a protective barrier, which present the appearances to say, "Look, a fortune of experienced and important family worked really hard on these directions for a long time, for a like reason do not dare to question, change, or bend them in the least."

In the Foreword to Jon Stewart and The Daily Show's newly released AMERICA (THE BOOK) none other than our beloved Thomas Jefferson has risen from his single in kind hundred and forty-eight year of long date grave to address the "myth of infallibility" we nurse to embrace when we think of the establishers of our institutions. About the writing of the Constitution, the author elucidates "Do you know why we called them amendments? Because they amend! They fix mistakes or correct omissions and they themselves can be changed. If we had meant for the Constitution to be written in stone we would have written it in stone."

He furthers advises not to coast upon the accomplishments of our predecessors, further instead, to work as hard as they did to maintain what they create evolving and relevant. There it is again, this ne to preserve our decisions and policies evolving and relevant. Remember what Mark Twain said about it not making earnestly sense to chart a course when you're forward a river? How many times have each of us been at meetings when someone instants his or her latest compass of work representing many hours of surveying work bodys researching past strategies, etc., and we praise their cyclopean efforts and accept their work and proposals for just discovered ways of doing things? And then, a week or month or level a year later, someone notices a flaw in the recently made known system and tries to point disclosed that the new policy emergencys to be changed but is quickly hushed befitting to the amount of time someone exhausted to put the current policy in place. Sometimes, folks work long and hard forward ideas that are wrong. Sometimes, useful ideas become irrelevant in a short time. to what degree long do we think it will take before the Federal Aviation Administration modifies its regulations to such a degree passengers can be given the benefit of the doubt that they know to what extent to fasten seatbelts without a demonstration? We also have not been permitted to reek on planes now for across ten years. How long will they continue to remind us? Now there is no doubt that the Federal Aviation Administration is important and works hard, unless it is not infallible and a certain of its practices need to be renewed and updated from time to time. more [i]or[/i] less get very defensive and annoyed when their policies are ridiculed. on the contrary no more annoyed than those being subdueed to them. By continuing forward with outdated policies, we can cause a great deal of more than annoyance.

It is interesting to us that the community in a meeting will win focused on a point as it was as work schedules and walk on and on and around and around, and finally someone will make a decision and it will be agreed on the subject of by most (after all, we've been in here for hours), and the collection goes on to the final checklist at the tail expiration of the meeting. However, united team member has been contemplating the previous decision, and during the final momentums she says, "I'm sorry, yet I need to go back to the scheduling issue." There is a collective groan, about statement is made about beating a dead horse, and then she points revealed the significant flaw in the decision that will have a ripple issue and cause a huge overtime issue upon the second shift in four facilities. many times instead of being grateful to the individual for thinking more and saving us from a potential catastrophe, these is sarcastic chiding from an for making the meeting walk longer. Maybe the person is asked to research the enigma in more depth on her be in possession of and come up with a certain quantity of recommendations (this shows everyone the extra work that is assigned when united thinks on her own and athwart participates.)

Perhaps we need to advance to the blackboard more oftentimes and write our policies in chalk and then walk end our days with erasers handy to hold fast our instituted policies current with the day and lives of those affected on them. The next time something appear to bes to be going against the grain at work, take the time to examine the reasons, and if it's just because someone says it's written in stone or that's always the way we've done it around here, maybe it's time to do more [i]or[/i] less amending.

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