22 Stupid Things Large Organisations Do

1. Instruct employees to adopt certain behaviours and values (e.g. 'integrity') whilst the senior team do not model those very behaviours themselves.
2. Not think through the consequences of knee-jerk cost cutting such as insisting that budget out-of-own hotels are used and then wonder why taxi (be it Uber) bills have soared.
3. Communicate via PPT which does not enable grammar nor syntax which is essential to the nuances of running a business and is the basis of effective human communication.
4. Allow employees to park in visitor slots.
5. Hold meetings with more than three people.
6. Provide a gym and a creche but build a culture that destroys work-life balance.
7. Provide free soda.
8. Allow people to use e-mail without any training in distraction management nor deep work.
9. Think the cool mission statement is the strategic plan.
10. Recruit quickly, without skill and seeking 'tick-box' CVs.
11. Think the latest social media 'thing' is a marketing communications strategy.
12. Provide free beer the night before the kick-off conference.
13. Believe all employees want to climb the 'corporate ladder'.
14. Reduce prices to win deals.
15. Deliver lunch to desks.
16. Wait for up to 3 months to give performance feedback.
17. Fail to understand people are motivated by feeling valued.
18. Copy-exactly-the competitors. 
19. Allow nobody to own, take and execute a decision themselves.
20. Fill days with conference calls, e-mail and coffee runs.
21. Have an enormous gap between corporate PR and in-the-field reality.
22. Not stop. And think.

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