Fish can count and humans can now try tiger burger - that's the first couple of things I read in my RSS feed when I wrapped up my work day. It was oddly fitting as the day had been such that I wondered if some folks simply could not count or pretended inability to avoid making hard decisions. In dealing with difficult clients it is sometimes the best choice to walk away but an assortment of reasons prevent teams from doing so.
It's when every one down to the rookie who is shadowing the project team sees the writing on the wall - a year out we will regret the day we agreed to do this work instead of walking away from it. And yet, we stayed on based on a "hope and prayer" strategy. That is when you know something is deeply flawed about the situation. Maybe if we had fish instead of people in charge of our collective destiny we may have fared better. Maybe if we changed our line of work to growing lion burgers fried in elephant oil we would have less to be concerned about. Reading these articles brought home the realization that there are people out there who have more interesting lives.
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