Why Organisations Fade Away

Possibly the number one reason is when devotion to the organisation, it's rules, practices and procedures come above developing the people that sustain the organisation.

When an organisation slavishly follows a procedure for customer service, twenty years old, that is irrelevant today, the organisation starts to appear irrelevant in the customers eyes. When the customer and their expectations have changed and the organisation is clinging on because its devotion to the organisation is above the customers needs, it starts to fade away.

When an organisation is more concerned with how it is perceived and ignores their employees growth and development because of rules and practices aimed to keep the organisation the organisation, it starts to fade. If you want your employees to care about the health of the organisation, the organisation has to show that it cares about the health of its employees.

Any organisation is only as good as the people inside the organisation. When they start to feel stifled and threatened because they dare to speak of a future, different from the organisation as it currently stands, they leave. When they leave, you are left with the unthinking ones.

The unthinking ones will follow the majority and think only of the organisation for the organisation. They don't see or know that for the organisation to grow, two things need to happen. The organisation needs to grow with its customers. Second it  must grow with and provide growth for the employees. Failure on both these counts will see the organisation fading from the mind of their customers and employees.

Ask not what the organisation can do for the organisation, but what it can do for the current and future employees.

Colin Myles
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P.S.
The kernel of an idea for this post came from a magazine article Wallace D Wattles wrote at the turn of the twentieth century.

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