If new projects consistently end up bogged down, it might be worth investigating whether you have a Bartleby in your midst.ĭo you ever look back on all that content you’ve created and think, “wow, I can’t believe I wrote that?” He or she simply doesn't act on it, playing a pocket veto.Īlignment within a leadership team is so important. That person never expressly says no, is told to do what's necessary to get it over the line, and then.nothing. Some new initiative that members of the leadership team are excited about, except for one person whose buy-in is necessary for it to work. I see this happen in businesses all the time. I'm not going to summarize the story (I will leave a link to it in the comments) but Bartleby single-handedly brings to a screeching halt all work around him by repeatedly stating, matter-of-factly, "I would prefer not to" anytime he is asked to do anything. A great book, but my favorite work of Melville's is a story called, "Bartleby, the Scrivener."īartleby is a clerk, a scrivener, in a law office in 1850s New York. Most consider 𝘔𝘰𝘣𝘺-𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘬 to be Melville's whale of a book (sorry), and it's a Whole Thing.
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