{"id":1234,"date":"2025-10-02T04:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/just-do-it\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T04:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:04:36","slug":"just-do-it","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/the-treehuggers-treadmill\/just-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content column wide left normal content view\" id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"rounded-corner\"><\/div>\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<div class=\"overlay\"><\/div>\n<header class=\"contents\">\n<h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJust do it<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n<div class=\"addthis\">\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style\" addthis:title=\"Just do it\">\n<div class=\"notification\">\n<form method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\" style=\"display: inline;\">\n\t<button class=\"follow\" type=\"submit\" name=\"ActionAddToNotification\" title=\"Follow this blog\" id=\"author\"><\/button><br \/>\n\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"ContentNodeID\" value=\"4783\"\/><br \/>\n\t<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"UserRedirectURI\" value=\"\/Blogs\/The-Treehuggers-Treadmill\"\/><br \/>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook_like\" fb:like:layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_button_tweet\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_pill_style\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<h3>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/jansen-pepijn\/\">Pepijn Jansen<\/a>\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>29 June 2025<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<aside class=\"textblock\">\n<article>\n<h1>About the author<\/h1>\n<div class=\"tleft\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/jansen-pepijn\/34373-1-eng-gb\/jansen-pepijn_author.jpg\" alt=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"tright\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/jansen-pepijn\/\">Pepijn<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/>Jansen<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPepijn Jansen has an educational background in cultural anthropology and international developmen&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/jansen-pepijn\/\">full profile<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<br class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/article>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\t<!-- body --><\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Okay, so I am not that much into the whole development thingy right now \u2013 mostly working with large business in the maritime industry. This looks like an entirely different branch, but the main difference is that people design ships instead of development projects. They also keep themselves busy with things like knowledge management, evaluation \u2026 and they hire consultants to do the thinking for them on that part (that\u2019s where I come in). They\u2019re just people doing their jobs, just as you are probably doing your job right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Well, let me rephrase something. The main difference between the development sector and (for example) the maritime industry is that people in industry <i>acknowledge they are just doing their jobs.<\/i> And they think (for the most part) that it should be done effectively and efficiently. This means that, for them, something as potentially vague as knowledge management needs to be useful. So I don\u2019t start by telling people how enormously complicated things like knowledge are (I promised myself not to bash \u2018complexity\u2019 any longer). Or why you can\u2019t plan to change the world. No, they just want solutions to real-life problems, such as the loss of scarce knowledge because too many people are retiring at once.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\tWhat I\u2019m getting at is that, sometimes, people in the development sector seem to be doing a lot of useless things. Or at least they do things that do not directly affect their primary objectives. Writing strategic policy documents that no one will follow; defining indicators that will never be met; listening to some guru babbling on about some vague theory that they should really take into account when doing their job (and thus making the policy even more useless because all it states is that &#8216;this document should guide you in the direction of \u2026 but of course we all know that the world is always changing, so never mind, because we can\u2019t do anything about it, but let\u2019s write a policy on how to spend our money on defining indicators \u2026&#8217;). Is it really necessary to complicate development work in such a way that it is becoming really hard to see what the point is?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- body -->\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"commentform content column wide left\">\n<div class=\"topright\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"bottomleft\"><\/div>\n<h1>Comments<\/h1>\n<div class=\"form\">\n\t<a id=\"formstart\"><\/a><\/p>\n<form enctype=\"multipart\/form-data\" method=\"post\" action=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Your comment will not be automatically posted but first reviewed by the editor. 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