From the course: Boosting Your Team's Productivity
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Kill stupid rules
- Every office has at least one. Some offices have dozens or hundreds even. I'm talking about stupid rules. Annoying policies that interfere with getting things done. Rules should simplify the things we do everyday, not make them more complicated, right? So if you could kill all the rules that frustrate you or slow your productivity what would they be and why? Take 30 minutes either with your team or on your own and make a list of stupid rules. Be sure to choose rules that are directly related to your business unit and your daily work, not the larger organization. And think in terms of red rules and green rules. Red rules are government mandated and industry regulated. You'd go to jail if you killed those rules. Don't touch them. Everything else is a green rule and it's fair game to kill. There's a good chance that most of the rules that you list aren't actually rules. They're just annoying processes that we assume are rules. Some are probably created by leaders who aren't even at the…
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