Image courtesy of Bruce Brouwer
Momma never told me there would be days like these. Allow me this. You’re hired to a project based on credible
past performance and you have the same forces on the project. You’re on the same site, even dealing with
the same people. The job is deemed to go
sideways; deadlines get missed people get angry. You have become the bad guy? Did you and your team suddenly get all
stupid? Maybe….but probably not.
Is it possible there may be other factors? Maybe and probably. Common sense might say so but it doesn’t
matter. And you HAVE gotten
stupid and you ARE the bad guy. Sadly,
perception is reality. On occasion there
will be a confluence of negative events, likely most beyond your control that
will take a project sideways. When this
happens….and it will….remember this. As
long as no one died, as long as you have a home to go to, as long as you have a
family or friend that still loves you, then take a deep breath and muster up a
laugh.
Unless you find yourself up high in the dead branches of a
Baoba tree giving birth while flooding waters rage around you and you’re not
sure if the rest of your family will survive the flood and if they do, you
wonder will they survive the starvation….then yours is a first world problem and
you will live to smile another day. So
do so!
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