…but what is the cost of stupid?
May 13th, 2011 | By steven_spear | Category: Featured Article, High Velocity OrganizationsIn a meeting the other day, a bunch of senior leaders were debating the cost benefit of workforce training, time and money in process improvement, and the line item budgeting challenge of pursuing excellence in design, production, and delivery.
Big words, censorious tone, all the rest that gave the appearance of gravity to the discussion.
Finally, there was the blurt out: “But what is the cost of STUPID!?!?!?!”
“What?” was the response.
“What is the cost of STUPID? Where do you line-item being lousier at what you do than you need to be?”
Long and short of it. There may be a cost to learning and learning to learn. The alternative is not zero.
Steve
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