Recently I wanted to reduce the waste stream coming from my company to be more efficient and environmentally friendly. I wasn’t sure what exactly we could do. So I got up and went for a walk through just one of our warehouses, looked in dumpsters, and started asking questions of people.
“What’s this?” “Here’s my goal, do you have any ideas?” We walked and talked and I asked more questions. And boy did we get some great ideas to implement to save cardboard and save pallets and save labor and costs.
When you have a problem and don’t know what to do about it, do something.
That something will reveal what you can or should do next.
If it’s a dead end, you now know, and can go another direction.
If it’s a little something, you can dig further to find more.
Action produces information. It illuminates the next step which eventually produces answers.
Don’t know what to do? Try things. Take action.
I wonder if there’s any way to show liberals how much more effective this is than an EPA visit? I mean not only are you more engaged in actually making things better and picking better objectives than a centralized command could be, but you have to push it down to the front lines and get all the humans engaged to get it done. Obviously better, right? How could we succinctly show that to folks that don’t make payrolls every week?
Love this.
Kat Cole, now President of Athletic Greens, told us at the Impact Convention in 2017 to always “listen to those closest to the action” since they will have the most valuable information and fresh ideas. Good advice.
Like it! Action reveals next step…
My Dad has always said “Do something even if it’s wrong” this resonates with that.