When a terrible idea comes from on high, there’s always pushback from the folks on the ground who actually understand how things work: the engineers at the computers, the teachers in the classrooms, the facilities crews, the kitchen staff, whatever. The folks who live their lives zoomed in on a specific thing may be missing the big picture, but they’re the ones who first see when a managerial notion will have execution problems.
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If you’re a mediocre manager / executive / admin / leader, what this feels like is •you• have a brilliant idea that will fix things or save a bazillion dollars or boost the metrics or whatever, but all these annoying underling keep telling you that you can’t do that for reasons that you don’t understand and that make no sense to you and you suspect they’re kind of making up.
And you keep saying “Can’t you just…” and they keep giving these confusing gobbledygook answers and the result is that your brilliant leadership cannot come to fruition.
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