Entropy

Entropy in layman's terms is the tendency of all things to break down to their smallest possible components. This is a product of Chaos theory and would start quite a lively discourse amongst Physicists. The rest of us simply go about life experiencing encounters with it without knowing it has a name. Have you ever sent out 4 items that require as response from your managers. One is a planning item, one is an execution item, one is a survey, and one is a scheduling piece. Did you get 100% response on any of them on time? Depending on the strengths of your players, you received the responses easiest for them. A few were on time of all, but response qualified varied and at least one did none of them. While you were chasing the answers to these, three new things came that were due to your leadership. This time, you focused on the aligning the people to execute the critical process of removing and replacing the poor performers and not on the pieces of paper corporate wanted to close the process on their end. You were a week and 1/2 late where in the past you were always the first one. You would have been even later, but you know how to scramble. Well, while you were looking backward to clean that up, a couple of little in fights that you were attempting to address by guiding the so-called adults to better behaviour blow up. Now the important process of providing training and hiring talented folks is interrupted by the urgent need to pick of the pieces of several volcanic employee relations eruptions. Too bad the guy that said to get the urget out of the way and focus on the important isn't here to take those statements while I'm on a business trip out of state. We never signed up to be the side show performer that juggles bowling balls and spins plates. The time spent healing lumps from falling bowling balls and gluing together shattered plates alone makes this practice prohibiitive. The best managers I know leave some of the bowling balls on the ground for a while and some plates just don't need fixed today. The important and the urgent that by legal default must get done are enough for today. My stage may be littered with bits of porcelain and balls with finger holes, but I am no longer getting hit in the head. I'm happy to tiptoe through my entropy for now. It turns out having things in little bits is not all bad. Louis Comfort Tiffany created beautiful garden scenes with shards of glass and bits of melted metal. Success is in how you compose your mosaic.