The Betta Fish
Lessons from the Workplace Fish Tank
AS A KID, I was fascinated with betta fish. Also known as Siamese Fighting Fish, these brightly colored aquatic creatures don’t swim in schools like other species, but instead prefer to exist alone and choose to fight others to the death in order to reign supreme in the fishbowl. This is why my mom and dad ended up buying me a pair of those orange big-brained, bulging-forehead goldfish instead: they could peacefully (albeit boringly) swim around for years and exist without any issues.
Decades later, as a full-fledged employed adult, I realized the workplace is an aquarium filled with betta fish! ...
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