Conflict

well we as a management team got a good stern talking to the other day for our horrible numbers that we have been posting....long story short it was a kick in the pants that we all needed. I tell you all this because i have discovered something not only involving work but life and i have a person to thank for this and i looked at his example when i was pondering this. Honesty is always the best policy. If there is a mistake made it needs to be pointed out. If people are doing an excellent job that also needs to be pointed out. But however possible you need to let people in your organization know what is going on in order to build trust and allow them to contribute to solving the problem

Seeing as how i love to give illustrations i will give this. Problems are like puddles of water after a storm...if you let people know or make them aware of the puddle it can be avoided or even cleaned up with relative ease. But if you allow the puddle to stay there it can not only get people all messy but can cause other worse problems if you don't deal with the intial problem of the puddle. Annoying little mosquitoes (i think that is the plural form) come to mind. They will aggravate and could cause potentially fatal problems with them which all could be avoided if the intial puddle problem was dealt with swiftly.

Anyway i had a discussion a few weeks ago where we discussed honesty. And people in this dialogue were expressing how times that certainly did not involve life or death but only your integrity it was okay to lie and i don't want to sound old fashion but come on. My parents have never lied to me and pretty much the only thing besides like yelling at my mom that was like the biggest crime ever at my house was lying about something. I couldn't fathom how easy it was and not only that how non-chalant people were about talking about it. I was fuming because they were justifying the one of the main things that people try to keep. They were okay with their integrity being flawed and while im not judging them or anything like that but man where have we come as a society when we can't tell the truth in any and all circumstances and just be real with people. Its kinda sad. But all this to say strive to be better, strive to be the tool that God pulls out to bring people to Him, because this world is hurting for honesty naked eye poppin honesty and sometimes i wonder why people have such a hard time giving it to them.