Hey Steve, thank you for this post! Personally, I think that whatever you have mentioned is very true.

Being an employee myself, I detest SOP and rules because it slows things down tremendously. From time to time, I request for changes, it always gets shot down by higher management.

However, on the sideline, I run a digital marketing agency that manages social media platforms for clients. I create SOPs for my team to handle, if not it's gonna be chaotic as hell.

Because i know how it feels to have boring SOPs, I try not to have too many unnecessary ones for my team. Overall, I try to keep it small-scale, simple and agile.

Once again, thanks for highlighting this point! I have tried running my biz without SOPs, it's just problematic and tiring. zero automation in place.