The absurd theater
Sometimes the fastest way to expose a dysfunctional process is to follow it exactly - if other approaches haven’t worked.
No workarounds. No “common sense” corrections. No quietly fixing what the process gets wrong.
Just follow the rule.
Suddenly, one approval takes days. A simple decision needs five people. A customer gets an answer nobody actually believes is useful.
The dysfunction becomes impossible to ignore.
Because bad processes often survive for one reason:
Some employees compensate for them.
And ironically, their competence makes a broken system look functional.
Sometimes, if the process has become an absurd theater, the only way to expose it is to play your part exactly as written.
Change starts when we stop protecting the process from its own consequences.
Don’t hide a broken system by being good at working around it.
