Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

This isn’t politics, it is groups of people endeavoring to accomplish something. Give them a gift—policies.

A policy is one of the best gifts upper managers can give to an organization. No, I’m not kidding. We have to understand what a policy is and how we use it.

A policy is a statement that helps everyone decide things everyday.

Here are some example policies:Fewer, better people

Software that we can move to other environmentsDecide nowOnly decide today what we need todayMake the user’s job easier, not your own

Make these short, simple statements. Put them on the walls. When anyone needs to decide anything, they glance at the wall and use the policy to guide them.This isn’t complicated. This works. Try it.