I am not a rule follower.
Show me a rule
and I’ve bent it.
I don’t outright break rules.
I bend them.
I have to or work doesn’t get done.
Bill Jensen and Josh Klein
talk about this bending or ‘hacking’
in their book Hacking Work.
“It’s one of the biggest workplace secrets
that most top performers
are already breaking their company’s stupid rules.
Current research shows
that about one-third of today’s workforce
use technologies not sanctioned
by their companies.
Why?
Because corporate-sanctioned tools
hold everyone back.
Those rule-breakers are
just trying to do their best.
They need the best tools available.
And if corporate won’t supply them,
they’ll hack a workaround.
Same thing with university students,
which is tomorrow’s workforce.
Studies show that almost one-third of them
have hacked around their institution’s IT structures.
When you add in non-technical hacks
—how people use their relationships
to work around processes and procedures
—between two-thirds to three-quarters
of our workforce are currently hacking their work!
So, if you’re not hacking,
you’ll be more alone.
It’s a good bet some of your best-performing buddies
are already hacking.
They just didn’t tell you about it.
We are.”