We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation 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.
Charlton Ogburn Jr.
I watched my husband, a gifted industrial scientist and teacher, have this happen over and over during his latter career – 11 years of teaching physics and chemistry to every member of the junior and senior class in a magnet-like school.
They’d change curricula, tests, methods, reporting every two or three years, never letting anything settle in and get a solid try. I think he might be teaching still, if he hadn’t gotten so frustrated at it.
The change completely deletes accountability – and allows bad teachers to blame the changes, and frustrates the good teachers by wasting their time on things THEY don’t need.
Been there, done that, for some reason the t-shirt is still on back-order …
MYMV and you escape the reorganization! 😉
I like that. It is very thought provoking, and it seems very fitting in today’s corporate environment.