Malcom Gladwell has a penetrating blog entry on the insanity of the NCAA. If you’ve read any of his books, you know what a good writer he is. What he writes in his blog is equally good.
What has always amazed me is how organizations keep rules or "procedures" on the books long after they’ve served their purpose. When was the last time your organization went through the "manual" to make sure everything was still relevant? Does anyone believe that time stands still for the NCAA, or any enterprise for that matter? Yet we tread on…living in the past while punishing those that have kept up with future.
What if we started afresh? Somewhere the voice of time is saying; "where have you been?"