About the difference between boring and Inspirational! in business.
| Old | New |
| Process, procedures, work steps | Request for direction |
| Compliance | Demonstrating failure; to learn |
| Punishment for (anyone’s! esp. higher-ups’) failures | Coaching towards more errors |
| Stepping out of line (even by casual remarks hinting at less than 100% drone motivation) is failure | Pivoting (even for your contribution) is near-mandatory |
| Succes is obedience to the gallows | Success is coming up with / doing the hitherto infeasible, unthinkable |
| The ones exploiting drones (licking up / kicking down) and (only) best versed at sticking to their chair, are promoted | Promotion? We don’t do rank and file here; we like your creative more or less |
| You’re fired – just because you’re a number that turned up in the lottery – that’s held every couple of months because bosses are bored and utterly incapable of coming up with anything revenue-increasing i.s.o. cutting costs and shrinking is growing, right? Even when the shrinking cuts out exactly the very growth-enhancing competences you need ever more desparate. | You’re allowed to pursue a career elsewhere, too but we don’t want to lose you. What can we do to make you like it even more here? |
| “(The ‘innovator’s dilemma’ is that ‘doing the right thing is the wrong thing.’) As Christensen saw it, the problem was the velocity of history, and it wasn’t so much a problem as a missed opportunity, like a plane that takes off without you, except that you didn’t even know there was a plane, and had wandered onto the airfield, which you thought was a meadow, and the plane ran you over during takeoff.” (as here; very instructive) | The same. |
| Fade to grey | “I’m Cool” |