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So Simmons begins the book by talking about Faith.

Simmons tells of a “$6-an-hour” worker who found a mistake that Simmons made in a project that could have been quite costly to the company.

The beginning of the next paragraph is titled “Trust Me.” This is where Simmons goes on a bit of a diatribe about the whole Faith issue… in a business sense. She says that people want faith, faith in the mangers to be able to pick up where they left off because they believe in them.

Is it me, or is Simmons being hypocritical about the situation?

She wants the ditch diggers of the company to believe in their upper-level cohorts. However, it was the fact that one of the low-level workers did NOT believe in Simmons’ work that a mistake was caught that could have become quite costly for the company.

The example that Simmons gives demonstrates a lack of faith by a worker that resulted in a positive outcome for the company.

I think it’s good for all workers to be somewhat skeptical of the powers-that-be. This keeps everyone on their toes. This way, everyone in a company is depended upon, rather than just one individual for each level of the corporate hierarchy. Could this viewpoint cause inefficiency in the corporate ladder? Possibly. But that is why it needs to be executed within agreeable degrees of effectiveness.

People may indeed want faith. They may want to be able to believe in their bosses. But do they really? To a degree. It’s important to always be aware of project situations in a company so that some of those mistakes can be caught by the menial “$6-an-hour” worker.