Selective Amnesia

Top Management

Ever noticed how, when top management wants to deliver bad news, they resort to analogies and compare the organization to the human body or “one large happy family?”

Questions, thick and fast. Left right and center. Top management batted brilliantly, dodging every fast one, and squaring the thick ones right smack in the middle of the bat. And that’s when the analogies begin.

“We can’t cut of the right hand, can we?” “In a family, every child needs to be fed. So we need to share…”