Pretty good ditty. "Is Everything Okay?"
Seth writes:
Is everything okay?
Unless you work in a nuclear power plant, the answer is certainly no (and if you work there, I hope the answer is yes.)
No, everything is not okay. Not in a growing organization. Not if your company is making change happen, or dealing with customers. How could it be?
And yet, that's what so many managers focus on. How to make everything okay. We spend so much time smoothing things out, we lose the opportunity for change, or for texture or creativity.
Instead of working so hard to make everything okay, perhaps it is more helpful to work hard at living with a world that rarely is.
I would add that while some chaos exists in spite of rigorous efforts to gain control, if we let control slip completely off the priority list, we would soon see flames. Keeping that in mind, Seth's point is a good one. Not everything is "controlable".
Know what should be okay and what you're willing to allow not to be okay - and why. That's fine.
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