[ Dominoes ]

I wonder how youth today learn about the concept of falling dominoes.  Even when I was a kid in the 1970s, dominoes were already an “old toy” my grandmother had for me to play with.  They were boring.

But somehow, I learned the concept of the pieces being linked together, and saw how one falling affects the rest.  It’s a still-used analogy – the ‘domino effect’.  

Standards and procedures are, or should be, linked like dominoes.  A good standard, or document system, is coherent and linked. There is a key “principles” document at the front, and the rest fit in underneath.