http://shallowthinker.com/2009/02/rethinking/ No deep thoughts here...try somewhere else. Tue, 22 May 2012 00:16:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://shallowthinker.com/2009/02/rethinking/comment-page-1/#comment-13024 Steve Levinson Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:21:32 +0000 http://shallowthinker.com/?p=1000#comment-13024 I hear you! A healthcare professional and program administrator for 35 years, I left the field last spring because I got sick and tired of all the bullshit in healthcare that interferes with healthcare! For the past several years, I watched in disgust as documentation increasingly became more important than service itself. Although I'm hardly an anarchist, my sense is that exposure to so many requirements unrelated to mission cause good mission-focused people in any field to suffer first from "rule fatigue," which turns into something far worse - "mission fatigue!" What's more, the growing emphasis on bullshit rather than substance means that leadership positions will be filled increasingly with people who either favor bullshit or can't tell the difference between bullshit and mission, and consequently entire industries will produce less and less of real value. It's like a charitable organization that spends more and more of the money it raises to support itself and therefore has less and less money available to devote to the cause the organization was founded to address. I feel so strongly about this that I'm actually working on a book about the subject. It's called "Mission Made Impossible." I hear you! A healthcare professional and program administrator for 35 years, I left the field last spring because I got sick and tired of all the bullshit in healthcare that interferes with healthcare! For the past several years, I watched in disgust as documentation increasingly became more important than service itself. Although I’m hardly an anarchist, my sense is that exposure to so many requirements unrelated to mission cause good mission-focused people in any field to suffer first from “rule fatigue,” which turns into something far worse - “mission fatigue!” What’s more, the growing emphasis on bullshit rather than substance means that leadership positions will be filled increasingly with people who either favor bullshit or can’t tell the difference between bullshit and mission, and consequently entire industries will produce less and less of real value. It’s like a charitable organization that spends more and more of the money it raises to support itself and therefore has less and less money available to devote to the cause the organization was founded to address. I feel so strongly about this that I’m actually working on a book about the subject. It’s called “Mission Made Impossible.”

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