The City of Los Angeles has perhaps the clearest example of an approval process that was designed to fail. Placing a single bus shelter within city limits requires sign-off from nine different entities: the local councilmember; the city bureaus of Street Services, Engineering, Street Lighting, and Contract Administration; its departments of Planning, Public Works, and Transportation; and the city police department. If adjacent property owners object to a shelter, yet another agency, the Board of Public Works, is responsible for resolving the complaint.
“The whole thing was not all that well conceived but too far along to stop.” That’s so real.
Also I’ve found that if you’ve had leaders in the past prone to micromanagement or large emotional reactions, you’ll seek to make your new leadership complicit at every step as a defense mechanism.
Phrasing like you’ve shared above is so helpful for navigating it.
“The whole thing was not all that well conceived but too far along to stop.” That’s so real.
Also I’ve found that if you’ve had leaders in the past prone to micromanagement or large emotional reactions, you’ll seek to make your new leadership complicit at every step as a defense mechanism.
Phrasing like you’ve shared above is so helpful for navigating it.