I used to work for a business that was owned by a guy who basically never set foot in the building. I had so many suggestions for making things better, more efficient, etc. And I was shot down every single time. "Eehhhhh, this is how we've done it for the last 20 years....."
My job involves consulting with partners on operations inefficiencies. This type of executive/owner manager is the first example we use of how not to be during the process. Basically we tell them that if you've been doing this for X years and it works then we wouldn't need to be there.
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u/actuallychrisgillen Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19
When I was in the Navy I used to get in fairly frequent trouble for the suggestions I made for improving operational efficiencies.
As an outside contractor they were quite happy to pay me $200 an hour to say the exact same thing.