<ol> <li>Employee A has a great idea.</li> <li>His company makes him fill out X, Y, Z docs, go to A, B, C meetings -- which collectively takes weeks.</li> <li>He doesn't get a response until two months later.</li> </ol> <p>He gives up the idea.<br /><br />Company stays stagnant -- sucking.</p> <h2>How to Incorporate Change?</h2> <p>This:</p> <ol> <li><strong>Change.</strong></li> <li><strong>Ask questions later.</strong></li> </ol> <p>If Employee A thinks changing XYZ will help the company perform better:</p> <ol> <li>Employee A should do it, <strong>immediately</strong>.</li> <li>Company will revert the change later if necessary. </li> </ol> <p>Done.</p> <h2>What happens?</h2> <ol> <li>You get a freakish bunch of <strong>motivated employees </strong>looking for ways to improve your company.</li> <li><strong>Your company starts improving constantly/freakishly/until-the-end-of-#!@$@!-time.</strong></li> </ol> <p>Additionally, you save on people-power, resources, and $$$ that the traditional change implementation freak usually takes, and put it to better uses.</p> <h2>"But wait! My people are DUMB!"<br /></h2> <p>If you think:</p> <ul> <li>"Oh, they don't know what to do!"</li> <li>"Oh, they'll mess up the business!"</li> </ul> <p>...then you probably didn't hire the right people in the first place.</p> <p><strong>Employees know how to improve certain areas of your business more than you will ever know.</strong></p> <p>(Just think to the last place you worked, and what you thought would've made it better.)</p> <p>Change.</p> <h2>Ask questions later.</h2> 2009-01-08T21:52:46-08:00 true 718 how-to-change-your-business 0 2009-11-06T21:45:48-08:00