There is definitely something to be said about pure isolated diligence. The problem is that diligence while it can become truly reliable, its not always guaranteed success. Unfortunately a lot of people lack diligence, its like they consume oxygen and expect success. Hell some people on this forum, myself includes can't even consume oxygen well yet.
Despite a deep formal education, being a product of trade work for a lot of my life, and being a technical development lead in a small business world, I used to pride myself when people would comment on never seeing such a hard worker. The hours were atrocious by no fault but my own but it produced, and since sleep was difficult as I abused my body(see where this got me) it made it easier to use every waking minute. I kick myself because of it now but there at the time everyone involved in some projects were convinced that hard work leads to honest organic growth. In places this is true, but it cannot be relied upon.
There is absolute value in creative analytical people, not robots that serve to trim processes(and people) for the purpose of a better operating machine. Unfortunately this is never agreed upon today because everyone absolutely has to have a place.
The issue today is that the "complexity" that lies within a large amount of positions or processes is deployed because the added step(s) serve to confuse people who may actually be more intelligent than those doing the deployment. "There has to be a reason I just dont understand yet" is the common thought. This can be seen objectively at all levels and in all sizes and types of business. I can recall working as a product manager in a business that had zero real sucess in a given market for more than a decade. They had a great product but when I came on board I very quickly identified the innappropriate ways the sales teams were "prospecting" new business. One avenue was this long drawn out unengaging waste of time, the other was a short impersonal half-attempt(that someone could probably close same day). After ignoring what my supervisor had labeled as "thats how we do it" and modifying the major prospecting and sales processes, sales average jumped 50 percent almost immediately both in total revenue for the year and doubling the average sale. This lasted less than a year before backlash came in and I moved on. I wasnt actually allowed to do my job.
The point of this was whoever designs these complex pathways likely does so because they lack a true perception of what the situation calls for. The heavy masking of the process shrouds the reality for most of those involved in it and falsely qualifies the process as appropriate for a situation. Because nobody doing their actual job take time to dissect and disprove this complexity it stays in place and complete morons continue on in their positions.
Despite a deep formal education, being a product of trade work for a lot of my life, and being a technical development lead in a small business world, I used to pride myself when people would comment on never seeing such a hard worker. The hours were atrocious by no fault but my own but it produced, and since sleep was difficult as I abused my body(see where this got me) it made it easier to use every waking minute. I kick myself because of it now but there at the time everyone involved in some projects were convinced that hard work leads to honest organic growth. In places this is true, but it cannot be relied upon.
There is absolute value in creative analytical people, not robots that serve to trim processes(and people) for the purpose of a better operating machine. Unfortunately this is never agreed upon today because everyone absolutely has to have a place.
The issue today is that the "complexity" that lies within a large amount of positions or processes is deployed because the added step(s) serve to confuse people who may actually be more intelligent than those doing the deployment. "There has to be a reason I just dont understand yet" is the common thought. This can be seen objectively at all levels and in all sizes and types of business. I can recall working as a product manager in a business that had zero real sucess in a given market for more than a decade. They had a great product but when I came on board I very quickly identified the innappropriate ways the sales teams were "prospecting" new business. One avenue was this long drawn out unengaging waste of time, the other was a short impersonal half-attempt(that someone could probably close same day). After ignoring what my supervisor had labeled as "thats how we do it" and modifying the major prospecting and sales processes, sales average jumped 50 percent almost immediately both in total revenue for the year and doubling the average sale. This lasted less than a year before backlash came in and I moved on. I wasnt actually allowed to do my job.
The point of this was whoever designs these complex pathways likely does so because they lack a true perception of what the situation calls for. The heavy masking of the process shrouds the reality for most of those involved in it and falsely qualifies the process as appropriate for a situation. Because nobody doing their actual job take time to dissect and disprove this complexity it stays in place and complete morons continue on in their positions.
