“There’s a way to do it better—find it.”Thomas Edison
Nearly everything can be improved: you just have to figure out what, why and how. I see in today’s news that some of the casinos in Vegas just agreed to a new Culinary union contract, a process that’s never easy or quick. While negotiating labor contracts I found that most improvements weren’t significant – they just made things incrementally easier or better. The process is the always the same for big or small changes or improvements of any kind: problems must be clearly identified, options must be well thought out, improvements must be articulated and documented, and the things that change must be communicated effectively. Getting anything changed is difficult, especially when it involved behaviors, habits and perspectives: in the case of a union contract, the process is exacerbated because there are so many parties involved. Think about the changes you’d like to initiate in the things you do every day: a cursory review of something like that makes most people shy away from even trying. But, if something needs changing for the better, find a way to do it today.
Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931): American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor
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