RULERS not RULEs

Once upon a time, 100 monks meditated in a monastery. They had a regular session of 5 hours in the morning.A small kitten used used to come daily during that meditation period, and its movements and fun disturbed monks' concentration.After some days, monks were worried as what to do with the kitten as hitting or troubling the animal was against their rules.Then, they started to develop a process.They assigned duty of one monk per day to keep an eye on kitten, and when it comes, gently carry it out of the premises. Now, the process was defined, and they keep refining the process, by noting time of its arrival, putting some statistics, to get the exact times, made a duty chart, and put some eatables for the kitten.
Now, after this process, their daily meditation schedule became fixed and the process became smooth. Everything went fine.Gradually, kitten turned to cat, got old, and finally died.
But by applying PDCA cycle to the process several times, the process was very much refined till that time.
Now what to do? No one had an idea. Everyone was stunned. So just to follow the process, the monks carried a new cat, and everything went smooth again.
This is the story of several black cat processes that prevail in today's industries. Once defined, process becomes most important whether it is reasonable or not.So, we need RULERS, not RULES to kll these process. And of course, a blend of proper RULES and proper RULERS is must for any industry.


Moving to the 3 valley,

Following management principles can be learned from the exercize:

1.Proper training is essential to achieve the desired level of results

2.There should be a well defined goal and every team member should have absolute clarity about it.

3.Mutual trust and belief are the foundation of a good team

4.Leadership and team work aren’t two separate entities. Collective leadership from the team delivers optimum results.

5.Every team member is accountable and responsible for the job at hand.

6.There has to be openness in terms of new ideas and suggestion.

 Team members must know what is expected of them individually in quantitative terms and not qualitative and vague terms like "positive attitude" and "high growth", as these words are ambiguous in their meaning.What should be exact position of holding the rod..?? such reasoning will definitely help in better performance.“Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.”