Rules versus Principles

Rules are complicated, typically long and boring, often legal in nature, and easily forgotten.

Rules cause “this is the way we have always done it” and, “that’s against the rules” - so let’s hide in mediocrity behind them.

A few values and guiding principles are hard to forget, inspire the good and creative in all of us, and don’t come with the expense of having a lawyer review them.

It really comes down to what you want? Limitations or inspirations? Rules or values?

“Tell Me and I Forget; Teach Me and I May Remember; Involve Me and I Learn.” -Benjamin Franklin