Volume 3 · The Corner Cabin · Essay 214
Ringi Technique
A method is a promise: do these steps and something improves. Ringi Technique keeps its promise if you keep yours.
Try it for a fortnight before judging it. Most methods die in the court of first impressions, which is the least competent court there is.
The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.
In any Indian office there is one person who knows where everything is, whom to call, and how things actually get done. The organisation chart does not show this person. Reality does.
An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. Keep it like a good key: accessible, unlabelled, and used often.