If You Are a Business Owner or Manager and You Want to Run a Successful Company -- Then Be Where The Action Is; Not Miles Away From It

Beware of centralized decisions that come from centralized owners or centralized managers or centralized politicians -- who are miles and miles away from where the source of the action is relative to the decisions they are making. Decisions that take place far away from the source of the action are generally unhealthy, pathological decisions that have no bearing, or little bearing, with what is actually happening and what decisions actually need to be made to 'properly adjust to' what is happening, or what isn't happening, at the source of the action.

The two 'dialectical parts' -- the action and the decisions -- need to coincide with each other, make sense relative to each other, blend into each other; and decisions made far away from the scene of the action, without any proper contact and/or context to guide the decision-making process -- are likely to leave employees at the scene of the action shaking their heads in shocked disbelief. The source of the action -- 'A' -- demands decision 'D' -- and down through the chain of command, from owner, to manager, to supervisor, to employee -- comes decision 'X' -- 'X' as in wrong; please try again before we are out of business and all of us are out on the street without jobs.

-- dgb, June 29th, 2008.