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As I continue to work with clients, the structure and makeup of todays organizations amazes me.   I see struggling organizations with layers and layers of beaurocrats in the middle layers.   Many corporations have become nearly as inefficient as our government.  When someone has an idea, it isn’t received with optimism or even skepticism, but rather with a “brush-off” due to the realization that the recipient may actually have to do some work.  The only word that comes to mind when I see this is disgust.   I’m so disappointed that this is what American industry has become.

Ideas, no matter how stupid, are what move us forward.   Change leads to failure or success.  The work itself, the labor, it isn’t nearly as important as the idea which created the work.  Ideas can come from anywhere.  You DO NOT HAVE TO HOLD AN MBA for your ideas to be real and important.  As it has been for millions of years, necessity is the mother of invention.  So, how can we bust through the beaurocracy and start being efficient in our organizations again?   Well, it’s going to take some work.   We need to have engineers, instead of H.R. generalists and beaurocrats, design our organizations.  They need to go back to being merit based.  EVERY person in a corporation should be compensated based on their contribution to margin.   And , YES, we need to measure businesses on their margin; not their revenue; not their EBIDTA.   How much PROFIT did this company generate?

So, in conclusion to my short little rant this morning:  Logic, reason, and success are what give credibility to your ideas, and not a diploma or certificate hanging on a wall.  In fact, in most cases, that piece of paper is in recognition of you being a worker; not a leader.  In most cases, it means you are a skilled technician, not a mover and shaker.   We need movers and shakers, and we need to begin rewarding them.  And, in today’s situation, those dissonant thinkers who want to change status-quo are going to be highly unpopular.   But, it is up to the true leaders in the organization to seek them out, listen to them, appropriately vet their ideas, recommendations and suggestions (APPROPRIATE), and move on things.   You aren’t going to make your business whole by practicing the same CRAP you did yesterday.  You are going to have to change.  You will need those capable of seeing the problem differently in order to get there.  Find them.