Rules are guidelines for the wise and shackles for the fool.

The trite answer to whether you should follow the corporate rule book or organisational norms is ‘of course not’. But that’s too simple (and trite!).

Rules are guidelines for the wise and shackles for the fool.

Therefore, there is no definitive answer other than don’t just take one position.

Break ALL the rules ALL the time and your corporate rebellious backside will be landing on the pavement sometime soon.

Follow ALL the rules ALL the time and you’ll end up on the same pavement outside the office – because you are boring, cynical,  a stopper, a dead-weight.

Options:

• Change the rules.
• Adapt the rules – loopholes are for leveraging.
• Don’t play by, play with the rules.
• Establish a different game that requires different rules.
• Every rule should be interrogated for it’s life at least once a year. If it’s outlived it’s value wish it well and let it go.