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When is Bike not a Business Rule.

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When is Bike not a Business Rule.:

It’s an unexceptional and foundational principle that governance is about behaviour.

But behaviour is about intentions.

Governance machinery that focuses on behaviour to the exclusion of intentions destroys value. 

As this great story of the little bike that wasn’t, from Tom Graves illustrates so well.