toujours les mêmes
Well we're here at the kitchen table again. Nipper is doodling again. So I thought it opportune to make a doodle of some words in a box on the internet again.
For your general consumption and entertainment. Or otherwise.
This is another wholly unformed thought, but over this week it keeps occurring to me that all too many people mistake change for progress. And then they take it one step further and assume that instant change is the best indicator of progress.
I was reading a Malcolm Gladwell article the other day and it talked about a profiling test with a question about what you'd do if you'd just taken over a department that was performing mediocrely. There were several responses, one of the best being: help all the members of the department to feel completely responsible for their work". And he said that the one that all bad managers chose was "completely shake up the department, getting rid of all the 'dead wood'".
Sound familiar?
The argument I can hear in the back of my head is that the problem is "the public" expecting things to change immediately. But I wonder how much it's "the public" and how much it is the manager's perception of what the public thinks.
Either way, any change or progress that's worth having is going to take effort, but also time. And it's likely that any short-term gain will be deceptive and elusive.
Blah blah. However, progress should also react to the latest information. There's no point sticking dogmatically to a plan for 20 years that got outdated 2 years in.
Also, I don't really get on with any kind of profiling test.
Full circle I think. I'll post a pretty picture later to take your minds off of it.
The Saffa is getting marrid today. And we played a sweet sweet covers set at a 60th birthday yesterday. Absolutely the funnest of times were had.
I gotta buzz.
overandout.
For your general consumption and entertainment. Or otherwise.
This is another wholly unformed thought, but over this week it keeps occurring to me that all too many people mistake change for progress. And then they take it one step further and assume that instant change is the best indicator of progress.
I was reading a Malcolm Gladwell article the other day and it talked about a profiling test with a question about what you'd do if you'd just taken over a department that was performing mediocrely. There were several responses, one of the best being: help all the members of the department to feel completely responsible for their work". And he said that the one that all bad managers chose was "completely shake up the department, getting rid of all the 'dead wood'".
Sound familiar?
The argument I can hear in the back of my head is that the problem is "the public" expecting things to change immediately. But I wonder how much it's "the public" and how much it is the manager's perception of what the public thinks.
Either way, any change or progress that's worth having is going to take effort, but also time. And it's likely that any short-term gain will be deceptive and elusive.
Blah blah. However, progress should also react to the latest information. There's no point sticking dogmatically to a plan for 20 years that got outdated 2 years in.
Also, I don't really get on with any kind of profiling test.
Full circle I think. I'll post a pretty picture later to take your minds off of it.
The Saffa is getting marrid today. And we played a sweet sweet covers set at a 60th birthday yesterday. Absolutely the funnest of times were had.
I gotta buzz.
overandout.
