There's more than one way to skin a cat!

Here's a great article penned by my colleague, Christophe. I love how he takes humor to drive home a point.

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I’m Right, You’re- Who, Again?: There’s more than one way to skin a cat. Home » advertising, Blog, Brainworm™, Brands, Business, Facebook, Social Media » I’m Right, You’re- Who, Again?: There’s more than one way to skin a cat.

The phrase, more than one way to skin a cat doesn’t refer to cats, it actually refers to catfish. Prepping a catfish to cook is a challenge and it’s easy to end up with, well, a mess. There are a number ways to do it, though. After a hard day’s fishing I guess it doesn’t matter what method you use as long as the job gets done.

That makes sense to me, but it seems not to for everybody. For some reason -and I have seen this in the workplace a lot- people seem to think:

If I’m right, anybody who disagrees is wrong.

I watched a woman struggle with her work load once. She refused to delegate because “nobody else does it right.” What she really meant was nobody did it exactly the way she did it. I told her (more than once) there was more than one right way to do the job. Not according to her.

She did the job one way. The assistants did it another. Either way it got done but to her the job wasn’t important. Being right was important and you can guess it caused tension and stress. The cat had to be skinned her way.

Just because management sees something a certain way doesn’t make it right or wrong. Just because somebody else sees it differently doesn’t mean they are any more right or wrong.

It could easily be the case both are right or both wrong. People see things differently. A way of doing things may work for one person but not the next. What comes into play is power. Bosses think they are more capable than workers since they’re the ones with the promotions (remember tacit learning?). In many cases being right is more important than running the office. It’s about power.

Workers aren’t any better than management at this. We all get hyperopic. When people, as much as possible, are given the freedom to do their jobs the bottom line will go up. Read more at brainwormproductions.com

 

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