I
can’t of anyone working today who doesn’t talk about crises at work.
Opportunities seem to abound for missteps, mistakes, false impressions,
outright distortions, and rumors both false and true. Social media can amplify
and in fact create crises for both organizations and individuals, both of whom
can also do a good job of creating crises on their own.
At
times, it feels like we careen from crisis to crisis, with everything assuming
an urgency that demands immediate attention from too few people. Important,
critical work is set aside to deal with crises, sometimes never to be touched
again. I once had a boss who referred to this as ‘they tyranny of the urgent at
the expense of the important.”
To
continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak
Poetry.
Photography by Junior Libby via Public
Domain Pictures. Used with permission.
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