Don’t Get Swallowed by the Giant Hairball

Organizations are like giant hairballs. Stacks of rules, red tape, sacred cows, and memos from 1998.

Gordon MacKenzie, the corporate misfit at Hallmark, encouraged people to orbit the hairball. Don’t get sucked into it.

Stay tethered to your organization but not tangled in bureaucracy. You’re irrelevant when you’re too far out.