In the latest installment of “the policy made me do something stupid as I chose to not actually think” here is a story of a recent USMC boot camp graduate and his newlywed wife on their wedding night getting refused a hotel room at a fancy new hotel.

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Time and time again we read stories of people hiding behind a policy. This time a Marine in dress blues and his wife in a wedding gown being denied a hotel room because they were 18 and not 21 – as required by policy.

As in the past, I ask you…how well trained are your people to think? how well led are your people to want to think? How well do you recruit, train and motivate? You have policies where you work. Do you want them blindly implemented or do you want people to think as they implement so they make even better decisions?

I know what you want the answer to be…

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