Behind Closed Doors

Week 7Dealing with Corporate Realities Without Rolling Over

Just when you think everything is all set, something will happen to prove that it’s not. You don’t have to accept Murphy’s Law when it hops onto your projects or into your team; you have other alternatives than to just lie back and accept it.

Digging Yourself into a Hole

Sometimes we make our own problems. We don’t want to ruffle the bosses’ feathers, and we shrink from saying “no” directly. When you hear yourself saying these words, you know you are digging yourself a hole that will be hard to climb out of:

• We’ll try.

• We should be able to do that.

• Let’s hope for the best.

• We’ll just do….

• We’ll have to make do.

• We’ll multitask.

• We’ll find resources somewhere.

These sentences ...