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Where’s the Common Sense in Large Companies?
No comments · Posted by Philip Newman in Common Sense, Greater Improvement
It seems everyday I read a story about a big blunder from a large corporation, and even more often the government.
With my experience these companies (used in the large group sense, as to include the above two examples) are built on people watching people watching people, and so on, to the point where the guy at the bottom literally has everyone watching his every move.
(Some great satire on this is in Office Space, where the main character is told several times, by several bosses, to include cover letters on his TPS reports.)
If this is the case, how do these blunders happen?
Is it a matter of it being the big guy on tops idea, so no one has the courage to tell him its a bad idea, and will garner bad press?
Is it a matter of these people being brainwashed?
Or is it just a matter of no one in the entire company having any common sense?
Professor David Nutt gave his (controversial) opinion as Chief Drugs Adviser in the UK. What was he doing? He was using common sense. How did the company react? They threw away common sense and fired him, causing a huge backlash. Now the UK government looks bad, and he looks great. Its amazing isn’t it? Common sense prevails in the eyes of the public.
MTV builds a wall to block people from seeing a free U2 commemorative show of tearing down the wall. Seriously? “Comprehensive security plan” they said. Translation? So more people have to watch it on TV to make them more money.
That a decision completely devoid of all common sense. A part of me understands why they would from a selfish and monetary view, but its a show to commemorate an amazing day in history, about public freedom and human unity, this is not the occasion to show the public how much your company hasn’t learned from these types of events.
These things do make their way to press, and they make the company look bad, really bad.
How can these things be avoided?
Common sense. Use it, love it, abuse it, because abusing it is one of the best things you could ever do.
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