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else. But in this country I must be
treated like a dog to go & come at
an American bidding. "
Only 15 years old at the time, the experience affected his entire
life. It shaped not only his social and political views toward
America but his own values and norms.
Needless to say, neither he nor the Queen would ever condone
intolerance of any kind.
28. MURPHY'S LAW
'1t is always the case, unless I
see to every article myself things
always go wrong." (1876)
Let's not rush to fault the Queen for saying something we have
all been guilty of: thinking no one can do it better than we can
(the so called ''I'm indispensable" syndrome). We cope with this
partly by learning how to delegate to others.
Instead, let's consider the Queen's point that "things always go
wrong" or what we might call today "Murphy's Law." We laugh
at the latest versions of Murphy's Law, e.g., if anything can go
wrong, it will at the worst possible time. None of us are blind to
the crazy and absurd things that go on in organizational life. Try
as we may to control things, we know that organizations are
often intractable, unpredictable, turbulent, and filled with paradoxes
which defy simplistic solutions or explanations. Perhaps
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