That is a good point Shane. Do what actually works, but give players free rein in other areas. Even on the field, maybe. I don't know if its real or apocryphal, but the story is that in mid 2006 the players went to Connolly and said words to the effect of, "We don't really understand what you want us to do out there, but we know how to play football, and if you let us, we will."
Where I work, I read a policy written by a very smart person who got paid a lot more than me. I could see that they were very smart. But I could also see that, down at the actual coalface, my decisions would be better than those achieved by following the policy. I subscribe to the idea that decision making should devolve to the person closest to the action - almost all the time. But its rather strange that having seen the collapse of centrally planned Soviet style societies, we have tended to get rid of "middle managers" - those closer to the coal face - and move more decision making to the top brass.
Now what was my point again?
