One of the benefits of increased transparency is that we more quickly spot the problems—and nostalgia is the festering problem of the moment. My peaceful state from the holiday weekend has already been shattered.
Listen, dear manager: If you can’t tell me the objective for your work—how it contributes to our top line for this year—then I’m not going to be a fan of you sticking to the same plan you were working last year. It didn’t work then, and you haven’t changed it. So why will it work now?
It’s time to purge, dear manager. Get rid of those old plans. Clean off the slate. Start with a fresh perspective, and build a new plan from there.
I don’t know how to put it more plainly: YOU MUST CHANGE. What you do affects all of us. Let the past go—it didn’t work for any of us anyway.
“Resistance is futile.” —Star Trek: The Next Generation (1990)
Maybe "the plan" was actually crafted to take 2-3 years to execute specifically in this business climate and the 'dear manager' had incredible insight 1 1/2 years ago when it was crafted and is actually a genius.
Now they are paranoid that they will be promoted too quickly if anyone finds out about their ability to predict the market when nobody else could so they are keeping their strategy on the D.L. in order to maintain their comfortable position in middle management.
That's my (conspiracy) theory...
Posted by: Aaron Franko | May 27, 2009 at 09:13 AM