Identifying crap is a good skill, but...
We all know that everything improves overtime. We find people talking, at work, about what is crappy and what needs to improve. No offence, but when you say something needs to improve, it doesn’t improve unless it directly hits your/your-colleague’s work. Take for instance, how long have we been saying that the political system needs to improve…what happened? it doesn’t work that way coz political system improvements don’t directly hit our work (it is more like a passing reference). If we can devise a solution for it and get it implemented by the people whose jobs are directly hit by the improvements in the political system (that is, the business men and the political party members) then there is a possibility of improvement.
Anyways, coming back to our point. It’s great to have employees point out “what is crappy”; because identifying crap is a good skill (now-a-days, people have learnt to live with crap, and what’s crappy in general seems normal to many), but, make sure you encourage employees to not just complain or grieve upon some bad-to-mediocre work, instead ask them to give a way out. It is great to point out a problem, but no one is more enthusiastic about solving your problems than you; so, you gotta give a way to solve it.
Embrace demos, proposals, and proof-of-concepts at work. The proof is in the pudding. So, show me how to improve, and don’t just tell me that we need to improve.
Anyways, coming back to our point. It’s great to have employees point out “what is crappy”; because identifying crap is a good skill (now-a-days, people have learnt to live with crap, and what’s crappy in general seems normal to many), but, make sure you encourage employees to not just complain or grieve upon some bad-to-mediocre work, instead ask them to give a way out. It is great to point out a problem, but no one is more enthusiastic about solving your problems than you; so, you gotta give a way to solve it.
Embrace demos, proposals, and proof-of-concepts at work. The proof is in the pudding. So, show me how to improve, and don’t just tell me that we need to improve.