Sunday, June 12, 2011

No Exceptions

The human kind, not computing.

What you say: THERE WILL BE NO EXCEPTIONS TO THIS POLICY.
What I hear: We realize that you may find this policy unreasonable. We want to make it perfectly clear that we do not care what you think.
What you are thinking: We have more important things to spend our time on than this.
What I am thinking: You'll spend more and more of your time and energy enforcing your authority until you find that you have no authority left.