How to Paralyze an Organization
or...
How to put Mavericks in their place

• That's impossible.

• We don't do things that way around here.

• It's too radical a change for us.

• We tried something like that before and it didn't work.

• I wish it were that easy.

• Yeh!...Yeh...!

• It's against policy to do it that way.

• Whey you've been around a little longer, you'll understand.

• Who gave you permission to change the rules?

• Let's get real, OK?

• How dare you suggest that what we are doing is wrong!

• If you had been in this organization as long as I have, you would understand that what you are suggesting is absolutely absurd!

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This could be better described as the Twelve Commandments of Organizational Paralysis

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