The “Left Hand, Right Hand” Problem Of Most Organizations
Here’s a quick little story.
I tutor at an inner city elementary school on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Yesterday I go over there for a 8:45am to 9:35am shift.
I go to pick up my second grade student.
His homeroom teacher is like “Oh no, you can’t do this time on Tuesdays anymore.”
“OK. Why?”
“We have this new program (name of program) and I need this time to execute it and use the computers.”
“OK, cool.”
I went back to the program I tutor with. They had no idea.
Some people who lead the school had no idea.
Now, ultimately I adjusted the Tuesday time and we good. It took all of six minutes.
But I kept thinking about this “left hand, right hand” concept.
Doesn’t that seem to define most of work in some ways?
What is “left hand, right hand?”
Jeff needs someone to work on Project A.
Tom feels Project B is the priority.
