Please Don’t Make Any More Rules
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Tom Stimson
April 8, 2026
Please Don’t Make Any More Rules

Your management meetings keep getting hijacked by the same kinds of debates.

A freelancer billed for airport parking. An employee wants vacation during your busiest week. And now six people are arguing about whether a rule exists and what to do when it doesn’t.

The problem isn’t the parking invoice. The problem is you’re running your business on rules when you should be running it on policies.

In this episode, I explain the difference between rules and policies, when you need each one, and how to replace the binary thinking that’s wasting your management team’s time.

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About Tom Stimson
Tom Stimson MBA, CTS is an authority on business and strategy for small- to medium-sized companies. He is an expert on project-based selling and a thought leader for innovative business processes.
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