Quick update here on the Vatican’s Ten Commandments of Driving. NPR’s Car Talk offered these revisions to the Vatican’s guidance on their latest program this weekend:
- Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s Lexus.
- Thy horsepower shalt not exceed thy I.Q.
- Thou shalt not return thy brother’s car on empty.
- Thou shalt not combine dialing and driving, lest thou mortal coil be wrapped around an unholy bridge abutment.
- Thy middle finger shall only be used in conjunction with thy index finger, to indicate “peace.”
- Blessed are the Prii*, for they shall inherit the earth.
- Thou shall keepeth thy 17-year-old son bound to the slowest and ugliest 1979 Volvo which hath presenteth itself on the list of craig.
What would you add to the list, were you to craft your own rules of the road? Remember, too, that these rules have relevance as metaphors for organizational life, at times.
For example, how do you move over, around, or through the Road Boulders you confront on the road of organizational life, in addition to those on the roads where you commute?
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*Prii, as in the plural of “Prius,” Toyota’s popular gas and electric hybrid car.
, a Steve Martin movie, in which Eddie Murphy tries to cross an LA freeway at the peak of rush hour. In that case, too, he won – against all odds.
