“The world is not a prison house, but a kind of kindergarten, where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell “God” with the wrong blocks.”
- Edwin Arlington Robinson, (1869 – 1935), American Poet and Playwright as quoted by Roy H. Williams in the Monday Morning Memo on 9/23/2024
The wrong blocks. Sometimes we do it to ourselves. We take the wrong tools out of the toolbox we’ve been provided. Sometimes we do it to our teams. We give them the wrong tools. Or the wrong expectations.
Worse yet, sometimes we give them no expectations or poorly defined expectations.
And, when they bring us the blocks that don’t even spell “dog,” but the ones that spell “cat,” “rat,” or maybe “albatross,” we get frustrated with them. Imagine how frustrated they must be with us.
As leaders, providing the right blocks is a great place to begin.
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