Pray Or Play
Do you follow the rulebook and worship at the altar of the corpo pyramid, or do you break the rules in defiance of the chain of command to get stuff done in a timely fashion and add value to your organization? To some extent, everyone has to obey some basic ground rules so that chaos won’t reign, but do you question those rules from time to time to evaluate whether they’re still applicable? Do you experience pangs of fear when you ask tough questions that “aren’t supposed to be asked”? How do you ask a tough question without implying that someone is being ineffective? As just another dweeb stuck in a vertical silo at the bottom of the corpocracy, how can you point out cross-silo communication problems without pissing “important” people off? Do you faithfully, quietly, and unquestioningly sit behind the pew and pray, or do you at least try to play – in spite of the chance of incurring a potential career ending injury?

