Business Insight Zone

Monday morning seems like a good time to start anew, so let’s try a series of awkward questions:

• Is there a troubled reporting relationship on your team?
• Do you need to apologize to someone?
• Does someone need to apologize to you?
• Is it time to come clean about something?
• Is there a key piece of feedback you could give?
• Is a Big Nasty Issue — a failed project, a cultural issue, a mysterious firing — hanging over everyone’s heads?
• Is there a pointless regular meeting that everyone would like to eliminate?
• Is there an employee who needs to be fired?
• Is there a client who needs to be fired?
• Is there a toxic manager or executive who’s causing havoc?
• Is Jack a bully? A sexual harrasser?
• Does Jill display the hallmarks of a problem drinker?
• Is the tool broken?
• Is the process broken?
• Is a fundamental assumption mistaken?
• Is someone in over their head? (Is it you?)
• . . .

Hey, it’s none of my business, so you don’t have to tell me. But if there’s an elephant in the room, you know it — and you’ll be relieved when it’s gone.

Maybe today is the perfect day to clear the air about whatever-it-is.

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(Picture by digitalART2.)