I was attending a meeting the other day and we (my friend Larry and I) were amazed by the amount of manual work that was happening to get out some monthly reports. At a break, he and I were chatting and he told me about this phrase that his girlfriend 'Lee' came up with. System Stockholm Syndrome. In reality it is a take off of Stockholm Syndrome but it is totally spot on! If you look up this term on Wiki it refers to a bank robbery in which people were held hostage for 5 days or so. At the end of the ordeal, the hostages actually defended their captors. It ultimately refers to the idea that no matter how bad some systems are, people will still defend them and deal with it and not even attempt to make it better.
Ultimately it got me thinking about the way I do things and how I could do them better. It is funny how sometimes it is so much easier to keep doing things the way that we know how to do them, rather than investing a little bit of time to make them better. So, as you go about your day and perform routine tasks, ask yourself this: Could I be doing this in a more efficient way? Enjoy!
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