Dealing with Oversimplification
Oversimplification. We have all been subject to it at some point. At best it is niavete and at worst it is manipulation. Frequently it is used to try to be expedient, which in my mind (and adminitedly, in the mind of my father) a bad word. Expedience is the cutting of corners to get something done faster, cheaper, with smaller impact than required - it's the removal of fundemntal process. It's getting by, perhaps, but sometimes with considerable loss in the process. It's different than determining you don't need the full result. It is requiring the full result without understanding or supporting the full effort. What do I mean? Oversimplification in this case is the reduction of the importance of or the effort untertaken to produce something. When a manager picks a date two days away and tells you that five days of work needs to be done by then. Either they don't understand the work, only care that you say it is done or don't care about how much time you ...