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I’ve always liked the story of Hans Christian<br />
Anderson’s Emperor’s new clothes. It has a<br />
real message for anyone in management.<br />
The tale is about an arrogant Emperor who wouldn’t listen to anyone. He<br />
was conned into believing an invisible suit of clothes could only be seen by<br />
a wise man. Self importance and conceit got in the way so he put on the<br />
‘invisible’ suit and walked naked through the town.<br />
All the flunkeys and toadies admired the Emperor’s new clothes. Some<br />
were too frightened not to, except one little boy. The lad burst out with<br />
what everyone else was thinking; “Why is the Emperor Naked?”<br />
I’ll leave you to research what happened next but I can tell you it all ended<br />
happily and the King learned the error of his ways!<br />
Managers should be much more like the little lad than the Emperor.<br />
Encourage your people to ask the stupid questions. After all someone<br />
asked; “Why are all the computer commands on the key board?" Next we<br />
got the first mouse.<br />
The greatest question you can ask is; ‘Why do we do it like this?’ It is<br />
disruptive, inquisitive, trouble making and upsetting.<br />
So use it, often!<br />
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