Part of the Strategy
I've been paying attention to one of my favorite sports recently -- basketball. Kobe fouled himself out of a recent game, some other team mates made some mistakes and fouls for which they lost even more players. But the Lakers still won. Some of those fouls and penalties were intentional; they were part of the strategy for getting the point on the play and the ultimate goal of winning the game.
Bearing in mind the strategy of the various basketball plays for crowding, goal tending, traveling, clipping, and such, I considered some of the practices in recruiting and in business in general. The basketball (and other sports games) have penalties for known practices that run afoul of the rules of the game. These transgressions are expected. They make the game more exciting and engaging, especially when accompanied by a game that tests the essential skills and abilities of the members of the opposing teams. Allowances for these infractions and penalties are made within the rules.
Look at baseball. There are rules that not only condone certain practices (stealing a base), they promote the practice. It's part of the [rare] excitement of baseball! It's part of the strategy of winning.
Could it be that sports games have certain parameters within which they're willing to tolerate deviant or erroneous behavior? Too much of it or behavior that goes beyond the rules of the game will subject the player to either being benched (do no business for a certain period of time) or get ejected from the game. To one who truly loves their game, this is like a death sentence. Your body aches for the stretch the game forces you to make in order to reach a goal. You build up an endorphine level and your body craves reaching that. It's like not breathing.
Penalties and fouls are built into the game because they are situations that are expected to happen in the normal course of the activity. Minds get away from the activity and the player no longer realizes that the bouncing ball is not supposed to be moving down the court. Over zealous tactics cause the player to crowd their opponent and have an accidental touch or hit.
In recruiting, we have those who lie about an opportunity. The lie is discovered and reported to the Association to which the recruiter belongs (if they hold a membership at all). What will the Association do? It depends on the Code of Conduct adopted by the Association. If it's an organization that is truly conscious about enforcement of rules, it will have a governance committee that will hear matters where the Association member has run afoul of the Code. The Association will have spoken about this type of conduct, memorializing the rule relating to it in the Code as well as what to do about conduct that violates it. And if the conduct becomes repeated, another rule needs to be developed in regard to repeat offenders and how often repeat offenders will be tolerated.
This is probably an over simplification of some of the concepts being developed here and I hope the readers are able to take this to the heights to which these theories would like to rise and explore the various permutations. They beg the question, how much in recruiting is not ethical but is part of the game, the sport of recruiting in order for it to be exciting? It also makes you wonder to what extent can the rules be bent (a) to keep the exhilaration alive and (b) keep within the bounds of legal and acceptable.
But if we adhere to the notion that there are rules within the Code of Conduct that can be violated and are expected to be violated, then we also need to accept that there is one unifying body to which we can look that promulgates the extent to which the rules can be violated, what the penalties are for doing so, how long those punitives will endure until the violation has been satisfied, and what is the ultimate violation that will get the "player" up and out of the recruiting game.
Violating the rules as part of the strategy for winning. What a concept!
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