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June 17, 2009
50 Handy Excuses... Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Like the old nursery rhyme, business success today requires speed, agility and the will to reinvent oneself over and over. Change is the operative word. Yet it's so much easier to "do what we've always done," isn't it? Do you see your company... or yourself... in any of the following?
  1.  We’ve never done it before.
  2.  Nobody else has ever done it.
  3.  It has never been tried before.
  4.  We tried it before.
  5.  Another company (person) tried it before.
  6.  We’ve been doing it this way for 25 years.
  7.  It won’t work in a small company.
  8.  It won’t work in a large company.
  9.  It won’t work in our company.
  10.  Why change – it’s working ok.
  11.  The boss will never buy it.
  12.  It needs further investigation.
  13.  Our competitors are not doing it.
  14.  It’s too much trouble to change.
  15.  Our company is different.
  16.  Marketing says it can’t be done.
  17.  Sales says it can’t be sold.
  18.  The service department won’t like it.
  19.  The janitor says it can’t be done.
  20.  It can’t be done.
  21.  We don’t have the money.
  22.  We don’t have the employees.
  23.  We don’t have the equipment.
  24.  The union will scream.
  25.  It’s too visionary.
  26.  You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
  27.  It’s too radical a change.
  28.  It’s beyond my responsibility.
  29.  It’s not my job.
  30.  We don’t have the time.
  31.  It will obsolete other procedures.
  32.  Customers won’t buy it.
  33.  It’s contrary to policy.
  34.  It will increase overhead.
  35.  The employees will never buy it.
  36.  It’s not our problem.
  37.  I don’t like it.
  38.  You’re right, but…
  39.  We’re not ready for it.
  40.  It needs more thought.
  41.  Management won’t accept it.
  42.  We can’t take the chance.
  43.  We’d lose money on it.
  44.  It takes too long to pay out.
  45.  We’re doing all right as it is.
  46.  It needs committee study.
  47.  The competition won’t like it.
  48.  It needs sleeping on.
  49.  It won’t work in this department.
  50.  It’s impossible.

Isn't it time to toss out these well-used excuses and just jump over the candlestick? Again...and again...as often as needed?

 

Thanks to Paul Dickson who first published this handy list nearly 30 years ago in The 1982 Official Rules Calendar,