Monsters and Bunnies
Welcome to the land of Monsters and Bunnies! Just when you imagine things couldn't get any more screwed up, more monsters are proposed to take leadership positions in the company.
- It's almost as if everyone in the company is branded as either good or bad. Let's go ahead and call those people that understand the value of people and relationships and teaming and collaboration and respect and trust as FUZZY BUNNYS.
- Let's call the people who represent command and control managment, demonstrate "kick-ass and take names later" behavior, and make decisions based on their own personal opinion and egos as SCARY MONSTERS.
SITUATION: The corporation's CEO launches an initiative designed to prepare itself for the world of the future. It assembles a team of FUZZY BUNNYS (FB) to lead the effort. After all, the FBs emulate the desired behaviors in the new company culture. [BTW, the CEO is a FB.] Due to a major mistake in assigning a strong visionary leader, the initiative team must report to a CHIEF SCARY MONSTER (CSM). The CSM, to better control the passionate FBs, appoints a LOONEY SCARY MONSTER (LSM) to lead the team of FBs. The FBs, being quite astute and smart, realize the potential danger of the situation. As long as they keep an eye on the LSM, they can go about their business and change the organization. However, over a period of two years, the FBs have been removed from the team one-by-one - increasing the ratio of SM to FB. Whenever the CSM is informed that yet another of the passionate FB is eliminated by the LSM, no action is taken, the potential problem is ignored and swept under the rug. Oh sure, they feign acting concerned, but the FBs see through the bad acting. Now, with only a handful of FBs remaining on the team, the LSM proposes assigning an undercover SM - previously disguised as a FB on the team - as the new supervisor for the last two remaining FBs. But the FBs are too smart to be eliminated and in order to protect their sanity, seek shelter in other parts of the organization. Result: Any attempt to deliver on the original mission of the initiative team is non existant. And with no one holding the CSM or LSM responsible for failing, life goes on... or does it.
Stay tuned for more episodes of Monsters and Bunnies. It gets worse...
- It's almost as if everyone in the company is branded as either good or bad. Let's go ahead and call those people that understand the value of people and relationships and teaming and collaboration and respect and trust as FUZZY BUNNYS.
- Let's call the people who represent command and control managment, demonstrate "kick-ass and take names later" behavior, and make decisions based on their own personal opinion and egos as SCARY MONSTERS.
SITUATION: The corporation's CEO launches an initiative designed to prepare itself for the world of the future. It assembles a team of FUZZY BUNNYS (FB) to lead the effort. After all, the FBs emulate the desired behaviors in the new company culture. [BTW, the CEO is a FB.] Due to a major mistake in assigning a strong visionary leader, the initiative team must report to a CHIEF SCARY MONSTER (CSM). The CSM, to better control the passionate FBs, appoints a LOONEY SCARY MONSTER (LSM) to lead the team of FBs. The FBs, being quite astute and smart, realize the potential danger of the situation. As long as they keep an eye on the LSM, they can go about their business and change the organization. However, over a period of two years, the FBs have been removed from the team one-by-one - increasing the ratio of SM to FB. Whenever the CSM is informed that yet another of the passionate FB is eliminated by the LSM, no action is taken, the potential problem is ignored and swept under the rug. Oh sure, they feign acting concerned, but the FBs see through the bad acting. Now, with only a handful of FBs remaining on the team, the LSM proposes assigning an undercover SM - previously disguised as a FB on the team - as the new supervisor for the last two remaining FBs. But the FBs are too smart to be eliminated and in order to protect their sanity, seek shelter in other parts of the organization. Result: Any attempt to deliver on the original mission of the initiative team is non existant. And with no one holding the CSM or LSM responsible for failing, life goes on... or does it.
Stay tuned for more episodes of Monsters and Bunnies. It gets worse...
posted by epiclectic at 9:38 PM
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