Sure, they told you about it, they even sent you to classes or workshops. "You must think outside the box!" For some of us, thinking outside the box is hard, for some of us it's easy. I, personally, have always struggled to think WITHIN the box.
But when you work in a bureaucracy, you know they don't really mean it. You know what happens when people think outside the box. All your "outside the box" ideas have been shot down or, even worse, ignored.
So now we are trapped in another box called "Thinking Outside The Box Doesn't Work." How do we get out of THAT box. That's the trick. Thinking outside the box, in a bureaucracy, is not that hard. There are so many long entrenched, inefficient and ineffective procedures that it's really not that hard to think of better ways outside the current box. That box outside the box traps us again, that box says "nothing can change." If we can’t think outside that box nothing will change.
In a bureaucracy we need to find “outside the box” ways to get “outside the box" ideas implemented. And that will take guts.
