Please Don't Make Any More Rules

About this episode

Tom Stimson discusses the difference between rules and policies in management and how to improve decision-making in business.

Your management meetings keep getting hijacked by the same kinds of debates. A freelancer billed for airport parking. An employee wants vacation during your busiest week. And now six people are arguing about whether a rule exists and what to do when it doesn't. The problem isn't the parking invoice. The problem is you're running your business on rules when you should be running it on policies. In this episode, I explain the difference between rules and policies, when you need each one, and how to replace the binary thinking that's wasting your management team's time. Visit trstimson.com for more resources. Follow Tom on LinkedIn

People in this episode

Host: Tom Stimson

Topics covered

• management
• business policies
• rules vs policies
• decision making
• team dynamics

Keywords

• management meetings
• business rules
• policies
• team arguments
• decision making

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Stimson Group

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