RUN WITH THE Big dogS™ newsletter
 Volume 3, issue 34

Are you waiting for permission to do what you already know needs to be done?...John

Management idea

There is an old saying - sometimes it's better to act and ask forgiveness than to wait for permission.  Are you waiting for some CYA bureaucracy to give you permission?

We have a client in a regulated industry that was retooling their business into an innovate, lean company that could be a leader in the new deregulated world.  Their state had passed a new deregulation law giving the client the perfect opportunity to define the meaning of the law through bold action.  The defenders of the status quo brought suit to challenge our client's restructuring.  Instead of waiting, as the lawyers chewed away, earning a living without much concern for the merits of the argument, our client moved ahead to implement what the legislature clearly intended.

By acting in their best interests, our client achieved success in spite of bureaucratic road-blocks.  At the end of the day the final result of the lawsuit would be moot for as one lawyer so succinctly said "The egg has been scrambled and there's no putting it back together now."