Quick Question
Would you stay in an organization if you felt any or all of the following:
- you couldn’t make a difference
- you couldn’t get anything accomplished
- you couldn’t get anyone to smile
- you couldn’t positively affect change
- you couldn’t feel good about going to work in any two consecutive days
- you couldn’t say something good about the company or the people
- you couldn’t see any clear strategy to achieve a win
Most would say “absolutely not”. But many people do.  Many people see no hope in their company, but no promise or excitement for anything outside of their company either. Thus they’re stuck in a cycle of despondency, with no way to improve and no way to exit.
So, is this a problem with the company or the person?
I had a friend ask me a few years back, “With the problems you see in the company, do you see you personally addressing and potentially solving those problems?”
What a great question, because if we’re pissing and moaning to an extreme level, we may not be able to see any way for us to contribute in a meaningful way to make things better even if some path really did exist. And if we can’t see a way for us to contribute, how in the world can we find solutions to the very problems that we may see?
The optimist (and realist) in me says that there is always that glimmer of hope, and when you find it, grab on and ride it for all its worth. That glimmer of hope may very well be the spark that leads to smiles, and the smiles to passion, and the passion to progress, and the progress to eventual success.
Wouldn’t that be cool!
In fact, it is cool!