You are a member of a touring aquatic circus group. You have experience in swimming in normal waters like in the swimming pool or at best in the beach. But one day, while you are performing on a Caribbean vacation cruise, you trip somewhere and fall overboard.
The sea is very rough. You have swallowed some water in the fall. The height from which you fell has also hurt your bones. And you find yourself in a difficult situation. You are unable to swim. You are barely able to keep yourself afloat.
But somehow, by some divine blessing, you are able to hear voices of people on the ship.
"He shouldn't have come on to the ship"
"Does he have any idea of what swimming is all about?"
"We should ask him where he learnt to swim"
"This is not the way we swim on this ship"
"In all my years of swimming, I've never seen anyone jump in without a life vest"
"He has been swimming for some time. Why is he unable to swim now?"
"If he is unable to swim, shouldn't he have told us that he can't swim?"
"Let us ask 2 or 3 of our expert swimmers to jump in and observe how he is swimming"
"While they are there, they can ask him about how he managed to get into this mess?"
"And they can submit a report to us about why he is unable to swim"
"And you know what, they can ask him about how he plans to avoid drowning now."
"Is he really drowning? I cant hear him shout for help!"
"Shouldn't he be treating this as a great opportunity to showcase his swimming talent by not drowning"
"If he drowns, then some of our passengers would not come by this ship anymore. We cant let that happen."
"Lets call the chief of his troupe and find out why he is drowning"
"Once we learn why he is drowning, we can then explain to each of our passengers as to why this happened."
"Since each passenger understands things in a different way, let us present them some data points which lead to the incident and what we can do to avoid this in future."
"Lets ask him to tell us about his plans to avoid drowning in future"
Since not even one of these voices really bothered to help you from drowning, I think you would know by now that it was the Ship's Managers who were talking. Oh look at me, am assuming that while you are struggling to stay alive, you would have a lot of reasoning power and even a necessity to deduce the above point.
Perhaps I am not that bad a manager after all.
2 comments:
It would do you (and your analysts) good to understand that a smack is only as juicy as the ass it lands upon.
I think you're in that awful spot that exists after a project is screwed up, but before the blame game starts. Once the finger-pointing begins, I am sure that you will do OK, once your survival instincts kick in.
There was a mail how to handle this kind of situation.
First of all identify who can be blamed and squarely blame them. IF you cannot identify, please identify now itself and start communicating saying that new person is responsible for this activity or that activity that is root cause of project issues
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