Sometimes knowledge from Seth’s Blog is just too good to expire. This post from 2006, is as true now, as it was from the original post – Jan 3, 2006. If your company is in free-fall and the process for change is stagnant, then this is for you. In addition, chipping away at things may just be what you need to force the organization to look at itself. Business as usual means making the same mistakes, because that is the way it has always been done. Wisdom quoted via the Godin blog:
“If you can’t change the little things in your methods, you’ll never change the big things. Pick something, make it better. Don’t worry if it is just a little thing. If you lather, rinse, and repeat that a few times, you will have made a big difference. BUT if you wait for everyone else to change BEFORE you will, remember that everyone else is thinking the same thing, and so nobody will change anything. Don’t wait for permission, or worry about doing something different, or invent reasons why you don’t have authority. Somebody has to make the first move. It might as well be you. Change your world, today.”
If you aren’t doing anything different, how can you expect to accomplish anything different?