Communication

We can’t get by in this world without learning some level of communication skills. If you weren’t able to get your point across to another person, you wouldn’t be able to accomplish much in a social or professional context. Such is the case with my employer during this recent turmoil.

The fundamental cause of this entire breakdown was a lack of good and honest communication. I add “honest” in there because even good communication, if insincere or deceptive, is just as detrimental to relationships as plain bad communication. Consistently bad or dishonest communication does not build relationships; it destroys them. In this case the outcome was that no one cared about the company anymore, and people left or got fired.

Consider: if the people who own a company will not, can not, or do not convey their expectations, goals, and plans for the company and its employees, everyone is left in the dark. We flail around blindly, searching for the tools we need to do the job we think we’re here to do without being able to see the outcome when it’s all done, and all the while the top brass has their hand over the light switch. And they wonder why we aren’t efficient.

It wearies me. It’s stagnating; a festering disease. I don’t care anymore.