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Over time, teams with autonomy to change their working style usually end up dropping heavyweight Scrum rules they don’t need and develop a custom working style.
And you just have to follow these simple, simple rules: be local, let the environment lead and think about how your grandchildren might build.
Conditional access: You can invite people in, but they have to be able to play by the rules.
And of course, if you want people to play by the rules, you still need an effective system of monitoring and enforcement, for as we've discovered, you can trust, but you also need to verify.
And all of a sudden, the drivers of these automobiles had to have driver's licenses, eye exams, registered motor vehicles, speed limits, rules of the road, so that horses, pedestrians, could coexist with cars.
So there are no rules, no right, no wrong, this way, that way.
DJ: And of course, one of the rules that we have in the vehicle is that he who drowns the vehicle gets to swim with the crocodiles.
But for us to get them, not only do we push ourselves, but we live by certain rules of engagement, which mean we can't interfere.
If things aren't going right, the first response is: let's make more rules, let's set up a set of detailed procedures to make sure that people will do the right thing.
More and more rules to protect us against an indifferent, uncaring set of institutions we have to deal with.
We passed a bunch of rules to regulate the financial industry in response to the recent collapse.
Maybe these rules will actually improve the way these financial services companies behave.
But what we believe, and what we argue in the book, is that there is no set of rules, no matter how detailed, no matter how specific, no matter how carefully monitored and enforced, there is no set of rules that will get us what we need.
And, like water, they will find cracks in any set of rules.
You design a set of rules that will make sure that the particular reason why the financial system "almost-collapse" can't happen again.
What we desperately need, beyond, or along with, better rules and reasonably smart incentives, is we need virtue.
And Aristotle said often in dealing with other people, we need to bend the rules.
Dealing with other people demands a kind of flexibility that no set of rules can encompass.
Wise people know when and how to bend the rules.
The rules are like the notes on the page, and that gets you started, but then you dance around the notes on the page, coming up with just the right combination for this particular moment with this particular set of fellow players.
A wise person knows when to bend the rules.
So that is an example, both of wisdom in practice and the subversion of wisdom by rules that are meant, of course, to make things better.
Now Ken and I are not naive, and we understand that you need to have rules.
But the problem with relying on rules and incentives is that they demoralize professional activity, and they demoralize professional activity in two senses.
These are people who, being forced to operate in a system that demands rule-following and creates incentives, find away around the rules, find a way to subvert the rules.
These are people who are looking not to dodge the system's rules and regulations, but to transform the system, and we talk about several.
Rules and incentives don't tell you how to be a good friend, how to be a good parent, how to be a good spouse, or how to be a good doctor or a good lawyer or a good teacher.
Rules and incentives are no substitutes for wisdom.
And then, before you get together, agree on some ground rules.
And what happens is, she says, "Please, sit down, be quiet, do what you're told, follow the rules, manage your time, focus, be a girl."
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