2022-11-21

🔗 Lessons on Leadership: Michael Abrashoff on Turning the Worst Ship in the Navy into the Best

The thing about rules and policies is they become very hard to fix once they are put in place. Both the people who put them in place and the people whose jobs it is to exercise them become highly motivated advocates of the policies. Even if the policies originally made sense, they become very hard to change. When you try to change something but can’t, you start becoming a tenant and stop being an owner.