Gaining efficiency can be hard – whether it’s in the government or your own company.
The Trump initiative dubbed DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) has been tasked with identifying ways to make government more effective. Putting aside the scale of the problem (hundreds of agencies and millions of workers), I think the biggest hurdle will be cultural.
To gain efficiencies you need to be able to see good ideas.
You also need to be able to implement those ideas.
It’s why culture and leadership are so important.
Managers who think:
- they need to be perfect
- Or are not open to new ideas
- Or feel that identification of opportunities for improvement signals a prior failure…
Can be significant barriers to any improvement.
Make it clear that…
- opportunities for improvement do not mean someone was asleep at the switch
- constant improvement is part of the corporate culture
- things do not need to be perfect to be good
Make these part of your culture and you will be setting a strong foundation for healthy improvements.
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