Running bad code!

Please share with me what advice, maxim, decision rule, axiom, legal code, parental guidance, social norms, etc. that you have been given, adopted, developed or otherwise utilized that you realized is bad advice, bad rule, and corrupted  your life, suboptimized, or even lead to death, disaster, &/or deep debt. First-hand observation of others is also acceptable.

It doesn't have to be the worse advice. It's not about a bad recommendation to a single person, movie, restaurant, it's about a bad decision rule that has caused  you, your family, your company, your country to continually/repeatedly make the wrong decision. It may have been the right decision at one time but the environment might have changed and then it might outlived its usefulness. Or it might be outright misguided. In other words, someone might have deliberately want to mistrain you for failure. 

If you've managed to correct it--even better.

While I fully recognize that this may potentially be embarrassing, complicated and ill defined, I'm going to post this challenging assignment anyway! No deadline. [Anything embarrassing you may tell on yourself, but don't tell on others in identifiable form].

While I don't want to lead the witness, so to speak, but let me give a few examples of what I might be looking for (sometimes people come up with creative and useful responses that I didn't have in mind, and that's OK too!)

* Street survival--one range master in police academy required the officers to keep a clean range and pick up shells before reloading. This was so firmly ingrained that during a real fire fight, an officer so trained left cover to recover shells before reloading.

* Tenerife collision--a couple of planes collided in the fog at the airport because the chief pilot had most of his recent training in a simulator. In a simulator, he did the takeoffs without requiring a tower clearance. In a real hurry in real life, the pilot attempted to take off without receiving a tower clearance. They didn't get to make that mistake again! :-(.

* Jury nullification--citizens on juries sometimes decide that yes, the defendant is guilty of violating the law. But the law isn't really a good legal code, so no conviction.

* Gandhi--when he entered the British court room as a prisoner--those in the room rose as a sign of respect. He admitted to being guilty of treason--attempting to overthrow the government as India sought independence. Judge said he had no choice but to find him guilty. But added that if an authority higher than him should overrule him, no one would be happier! 

Please share your examples of running bad code.  This may be a contribution to a book. Thank you!

Paul Jackson

Independent Legal Services Professional

8 年

"You can't do anything about that." Intended to mean that no discussion, even if held in private, should be had about a serious challenge, setback, or tragedy. Women talk through life's difficulties more than men, and might need to use more words on an average daily basis; but this disparity doesn't mean men can't pick up some slack and talk through their difficulties a little more. On one hand, obsessive talk isn't usually productive, and a person might need time, a great deal of time, to cool off. On the other hand, burying a tragic memory (e.g., "suck it up") in one's own consciousness robs one's psyche of the natural sense (and hence the actual state) of well-being. Generally, we are at our most human when we communicate--both listening and talking--so communication affirms and restores our humanness, a quality that a tragic event might appear to threaten.

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J.T. Shim, PhD, MBA

Consultant and coach! Developing top leaders!

8 年

Follow your passions...and the money will follow.

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Joshua Dolecal

Data Analyst at NYC Board of Elections

8 年

1. "If it's not broke, don't fix it." By the time it breaks, it's too late. 2. Blindly following leadership without question. We have a bad habit of seeing it as negative to question our superiors. 3. "Happy wife, happy life." Many interpret this as simply dropping their beliefs and putting all their effort into agreeing with, obeying, and serving their wife believing it will bring them happiness. The result is often the opposite.

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