Everyday Is an Interview
Organizations love policies.
Handbooks are written. Procedures are posted. Expectations are documented.
But standards are not defined by what is written. They are defined by what is lived.
There is often a gap between policy and practice. Everyone knows the rules on paper. What matters is what actually happens when those rules are tested. When timelines get tight. When pressure increases. When enforcing the standard becomes uncomfortable.
Lived practice is where credibility is earned or lost.
If policies exist but are not enforced, they stop being standards. They become suggestions. And people adjust accordingly.
Professionals pay attention to this gap. They know that consistency matters more than language. A standard applied sometimes is not a standard at all. It is uncertainty disguised as flexibility.
Closing the gap requires discipline. It means modeling the behavior you expect. It means addressing deviations early. It means aligning actions with words, even when it would be easier to look the other way.
Every day is an interview.
People are not watching what is written. They are watching what is reinforced.
“Standards live in practice, not in policy.”
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