And things drift
When someone criticises you, your team or what you do, it’s natural to get defensive.
To focus on the good things and minimise what they’re saying…
When things are working well, when business as usual is good business and everything is tick-tocking along it’s easy to take it for granted.
Slowly, slowly our attention moves elsewhere as we allow ourselves to assume that because things are going well now, they will continue to go well tomorrow.
We check less often, ask fewer questions, stop noticing the early indicators and let our wander from the road.
And things drift.
Little by little, the new normal isn’t the old normal.
And it shifts again.
And at some point – you know not when or how or where – it wanders outside of the lines into the grass.
The answer: when things are good, work out what good equals and put alerts in place. When they tell you things are drifting, pay attention and get back on the bubble.
Skippy strategy: Put alerts in place and pay attention when they ring.
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