Not My Job
How about this? Rather than just moving the branch, the paint truck just drove around it... as a result, a sub-standard job.
It reminds me of a night I was traveling when working for Canon USA. I was in San Francisco for a few days. One night I wanted to have an ice cream sundae to take to my room. I went to the restaurant to order my ice cream so that I could take it to my room (I didn't want to pay the extra $8 just for room service to deliver it since I was already there anyway).
When I asked for ice cream to go, the waitress asked me where I was going to take it. I told her and she said that union rules prevented her from letting me take anything from the restaurant to my room because that was a different union's responsibility. I was dumbfounded.
How often do we ignore the simple things that will allow our service to stand out in the crowd because it is simply not our job? How can we ever expect to be great if we keep passing the buck?
Thanks to Seth Godin for the picture.
Corey Smith is the Vice President of Innovation at Fisher's Document Systems where he maintains a blog on business and technology.
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