RULE 104
Don’t cut corners – you’ll get found out
Maybe you make aeroplanes – are you going to cut corners? Maybe use substandard metal in the wings? Replace the engines with junkyard replacements? I don’t think so. You’d get found out pretty quick. Hey, there is an increasing trend of taking managers to court if they have been responsible for injury to anyone using one of their products which has been found to be faulty (by way of design or manufacture or cost cutting). Quite right too. If we were all made to be personally responsible for what we do in our working lives maybe things would get a whole lot better. Rant over.
Maybe you don’t make aeroplanes. Maybe you don’t make anything. Maybe you just program computers. Nice and safe. Can’t ...
Get The Rules of Management, 4th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
