Organisations are strange and complex social environments. They are fraught with dynamics and undercurrents that ebb and flow beneath the surface.
It should be no surprise then that, not unlike the school playground, the phenomena of bullies, cliques, and favouritism run rampant.
The Internet is inundated with advice about how we should learn from our mistakes, and how our failures are our biggest teachers. Yet when push comes to shove, we cannot manage to really wholeheartedly embrace that.
And we’d like to tell you that’s okay.
It’s human to err, but even more so to dislike screwing up. After all, for those things that matter, we put in effort to ensure that we do the best job we possibly can.
Yet sometimes this may not be enough, or sometimes we simply get it wrong.