Friday 27th October 2017
Don’t buy into the complacency….
Complacency is something that tends to presage the end of something….
You sometimes see it in the workplace when an employee or colleague stops trying, stops learning and stops contributing – but continues to turn out for the cheque in the mistaken belief that he has a job for life….
You see it with certain businesses where a wrong-headed attitude says you only need throw open the doors and customers will show up regardless of declining values and deteriorating service….
You see it in partnerships of all sorts where one party stops making the effort, stops observing rules and starts behaving badly – overlooking the fact that to remain in any relationship is a partner’s choice and not a mandatory obligation….
- The rebalancing effect….
Complacency levels tend to peak just ahead of the P45 landing on the desk, the liquidator showing up at the front door or the divorce papers falling through the letterbox….
It’s almost as if the world works to overcome preconceptions that have travelled too far in one direction and need to be rebalanced….
Just when people, businesses and investors feel at their most secure – believing that what is in place now will continue in perpetuity – that’s the exact moment when the wind finally changes direction and blows hard the other way….… Click here to read more