Today, i read a story about a Judge's decision. thought to share with all of you. Please read carefully and embark the story line. let's start the story :
A law school professor once gave her students an assignment: help the chief judge improve the jury system. Her diligent students met with attorneys to ask them what made good juries. They interviewed past jury members. They studied how the jurors’ genders and races affected the verdict. They noted what evidence was available to the jurors. They even investigated what the jurors ate on the day of the decision!
But they found that none of those things predicted if the jury delivered a good decision. Instead, they stumbled upon an unusual factor that did matter. It was the shape of the table in the room that the jurors sat in. If the table was rectangular, the juror at the head of the table dominated the final verdict. If the table was circular, the jurors were patient, democratic and arrived at a fair judgment.
The students were ecstatic. Not only had they cracked the assignment, but it was also such a simple fix. All they needed to do was replace rectangular tables with circular ones! Excited, they presented this finding to the chief judge.
The judge was also overjoyed. He immediately dispatched an order. “Remove all circular tables from jury rooms. Replace them with rectangular tables.”
Read those last two lines again. The judge ordered the circular tables to be removed.
Why? Because circular tables encouraged the jurors to take their time and deliberate. The judge’s goal wasn’t to make the jury process more fair or robust. Instead, his goal was to clear the cases in his backlog. Rectangular tables did just that.
As a leader, before you embark on a project, crystallize your objectives first and tell your team. Then tell them again. Point boldly to the direction you want to head. Your boat can have the strongest rowers, but still go nowhere if everyone is rowing in different directions.
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