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Illusion

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. If reorganization doesn't work, changing management is usually the next order of business, along with sending people to leadership training. When reorganization and management changes don't work, usually enough time has elapsed between changing the structure and changing management that a new book comes out on reorganization under a different name, and we start the cycle again. After a while, another book comes out on leadership, under a different name, and training continues with a round of leadership musical chairs. The appeal of the outside-in approach is the hope of improvement with the least amount of effort. Juggling your three lives with this outside-in approach is hoping that those in your private or family life and public life or life in the community at large will change or improve on their own, so that you don't have to.

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