Quote of the Week: Mess in the Middle
By: Jan BolickJune 30 marks the middle of 2011, and so our featured quote is:
Hopefully you aren’t dealing with a mess. But if you are, this quote plus Other Resources on this page, can help you get out of the mess and boost morale and productivity in the process.
If you aren’t dealing with a mess right now – good for you! These materials will come in handy later when you will – unless you’re superhuman – have to deal with a mess.
I heard Rosabeth Moss Canter say, “Everything is a mess in the middle” about 25 years ago and the phrase has been a valuable tool to me over and over through the years whenever I’ve found myself or my team in the middle of a project or situation that started out just fine and then became a mess somewhere in the middle.
Has that ever happened to you?
When it happens to me, people like Nervous Nellie, Self-Doubting Sally or Panicked Polly tend to show up.
Do you have goons “on your team” like those three that fill your mind with goop like, “You aren’t qualifed to do this. Nobody in this office is qualified. Why are you even doing it anyway? It was a stupid idea.”
“Everything is a mess in the middle” has a way of saving people from those goons, freeing them from the mental and emotional mess, so that they can focus on finding their way out of the REAL mess and push through the middle to the end.
Read that sentence again. It’s important.
We invite you to print and/or post the above quote. Use it as background or wallpaper for your computer. Instructions below. Feel free to send it to colleagues, family and friends.
And then take a look at resources below – to help now or later.
Oh yes – and if you haven’t already done so, sign up for a Monday morning BOOST for you and your team – the Leadership Quote of the Week delivered to your email box each Monday morning.
Other Resources for Messes & Mid-Year:
- If your organization doesn’t run on the calendar year, then this may be the end of year for you. If so – this may be a more timely quote for you. Or this one. Or this one.
Sign up here for the Leadership Quote of the Week – A Bite Sized Bit to Boost Morale, Productivity and Performance.
Use the above quote as background or wallpaper for your computer with just three clicks.
1. Click on the image above.
2. Right click on the image that appears.
3. On the pull down menu that appears, click on “set as background”.
Voila! There’s still plenty of room on the left side of the screen for all your shortcut icons.
Note: If you don’t like your new wallpaper, don’t want to replace it with a quote from the Business Class Quote Library and don’t know how to get rid of it……
Go to your control panel. Select “Display”. Select “Desktop”. And then choose from the designs offered.”
Or print the PDF version below. Just click on the printer icon in lower right corner of the image.
Problems? Try this link.
There are 153 additional quotes in our Quote Library.
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