So much of life is not quite this and not quite that. We grapple with conditions that fall in-between the usual categories and yet often find that no word exactly describes reality. Frustrated, we slap a word on a matter that doesn't fit the word's definition and then have to deal with the result of our inaccuracy. [It is as if we asked for the precise location of something and got the reply: "Yonder."]
I recall a management team being described as neither good nor bad overall but somewhere in-between on various matters. Hmm. Okay.
Some of our worst reasoning may be sparked by an accumulation of such gaps.
Some of our worst reasoning is based on those gaps AND often times those gaps are created by an unwillingness to call something what it is. A management team is something; if it isn't good then "not bad" is an unnecessary add-on. We got the point at "not good".
ReplyDeleteKurt,
ReplyDeleteThat's an important point. There are many workplaces where direct language hasn't been used in years.
Michael