Making a blind eye

 

As PM, how many times have you been requested to bend just a Little bit the rules?,  to make the blind eye?

The final goal worth it, they say, and anyway those rules are antique and out of trend… 

Furthermore, everyone here knows that those rules are not observed nor pursued by anyone, and nobody gets hurts… so why to have a big problem or delays in project just to comply with that insignificant, obsolete, meaningless rule?

And there we go… that’s the way it all starts. An environment where breaking the rules is the Status quo.  Remember Enron?....   Those who works in IT, know the scenario:

“There is no need to strictly comply with all change management process to put that little of functionality in production”….  And the results?... a chaotic system environment plagued with bugs, data loss and business loss.

There is no half ethical behavior, either you decide to be or not to be; you can decide to be part of the construction of a corrupt environment, or stand up and not be part of it. You cannot make a blind eye.

Making a blind eye is to make a decision of being part of corruption.