Which Route Will You Take
With March Madness
in full swing (Go Wisconsin!), brackets
busted, hearts happy, and your office pool down the drain; I only found it
fitting to finally post the Team Analogy. There is the idea that for me to
succeed you have to fail, this idea, wherever it may have come from is
extremely counter productive and dangerous. (Check out a previous post about this idea...) But lets dive in…
Now imagine this,
you are a member of a strong and successful basketball team. The team consist
of about 10 players, but you are the 6th man. Therefore, you are a key and
critical player, the relief and reinforcement for your team. But you may not
be the "star" and you more than likely do not start in any of the
games. But you do get a good amount of court time and you play a key role in the success
of the team.
However, as the 6th
man you aspire to more, you want to do more you want more responsibility within
the team. Here is where we determine the type of person you truly are… During
the a routine practice you can either:
- Stay late work harder, with still just the possibility of starting in an upcoming game due to the visible improvements and hard work. With that you may have the opportunity to take the place of a current starter because you have increased your capabilities.
- Or, you can play a bit dirty… No one will ever know that you had malice intent when you "accidently" undercut your teammate during a rebounding drill, right??? To sacrifice a good teammate for your own personal and selfish gain.
Now with this
decision there are a couple of variables at play, 1. the moral compass of the
individual and 2. the clear understanding of roles and their value to the team.
I am pretty sure that if I created a survey with these to ideas as my variables
(and accounted for honesty), I would find a strong correlation in decision
making based on clarity of role and moral compass.
Which route will you
take. More often than not, most people say that they will choose route A. It
just is the right thing to do, however, when someone has a vested interest in
achieving a goal for whatever reason, sometimes their moral compass can get skewed
by that interest. So here is how the
story turns out if you chose A or B:
- Your team gone from good to great, you may still not start, but you understand why and understand the value you bring to the team. You have managed to increase your bandwidth and skill, benefiting the entire team.
- Your team has gone from good to bad, you have sacrificed your own teammate, ultimately changing the dynamic of the team, in a very negative way and counter productive way. You have an injured a player, who may or may not recover. Brought a level of unneeded chaos to their personal lives. Further, you have also not seen the improvement of skill in yourself, due to the lack of true work, but you did get what you ultimately desired...
So which route will you take?
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