" Show bravery by ignoring silly rules and norms "
Successful leaders sometimes don't allow rules, policies and norms to stand in
their way of taking the right actions, choices and decisions.
The larger and more established the organization you work within, the more
likely that rules might have to be bent or ignored in order to get things done
This might involve breaking accepted norms, unwritten rules, agreed policies
or written guidelines such as:
Written Guidelines:
• Your predecessor always attended particular weekly internal meetings but
you realize that there's no point in you continuing this practice and you
stop attending. When challenged on why you're breaking this accepted
practice, you may have to explain your reasoning.
• HR policies state that every candidate must be interviewed by five col-
leagues and be reference and salary checked before a job offer can be given
to them. However, you interview a really outstanding candidate, who has
only met one other colleague to date, and you realize this job seeker is
about to accept a competitor's job offer. You decide to ignore the hiring
rules and immediately extend her a written job offer.
• Your team have been working very well over a number of years with a sup-
plier of a niche service. Under new procurement rules, you realize that this
supplier should be dropped because they can't fulfil various compliance
requirements but you decide to continue working with them, claiming that
there's no other supplier in the market with their important sill-set.
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