SCENE AT THE WORKPLACE

After many years in managment I grow frustrated at the apparent ability to avoid added responsibility (oops that turned rather alliterative). You would think I would know better. It seems we have bent over so far to be sure we have consensus, team players, everybody on board that often nothing gets done. When everyone's opinion must be heard, regardless of value on everything, then argument, dissension and lobbying occurs for the most mundane issues. There is an entitlement that all have the right to belittle or reject even the most sane resolution even when it means something important may not be done. This leads to projects being bogged down, re-edited and changed for the sake of change so that every inane thought has a home in the final product. It's like trying to build a plane by committee that probably won't fly, but by gosh it certainly looks "purty". Not surprisingly, it becomes difficult to find someone willing to make a decision and move forward "damn the torpedoes". And when one is that type of person willing to make decisions and take the consequences they are considered manipulative and aggressive--- ARRRGGGHHH. What does that look like? Well to me it looks like a competent person.