Seventh law of worker entropy: Difference between revisions

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If you want to change how people do things, ''make life easier for them''.  
If you want to change how people do things, ''make life easier for them''.  


This law is routinely ignored, at great cost to the poor [[subject matter expert]]s on whose heads [[tedium]] inevitable rains down but also, gratifyingly, on the [[software as a service]] vendor whose bright<ref>Not bright.</ref> ideas they hawk to middle managers in the legal [[chief operating office]].  
This law is routinely ignored, at great cost to the poor [[subject matter expert]]s on whose heads attendant [[tedium]] inevitably then rains down but also, gratifyingly, on the [[software as a service]] vendor whose bright<ref>Not bright.</ref> ideas they hawk to [[middle manager]]s in the legal [[chief operating office]].  


Any innovation that, for example, injects a new [[dialog box]], however well-intended — was there ever a [[dialog box]] that ''wasn’t'' well-intended? — into an existing process violates this principle.
Any innovation that, for example, injects a new [[dialog box]], however well-intended — was there ever a [[dialog box]] that ''wasn’t'' well-intended? — into an existing process violates this principle.