Collapse: Failure or Opportunity
Collapse: Failure or Opportunity
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Leadership executives’ career and personal coaches and even grandmoms say that there is no such thing as failure, only opportunities. The old football coach says, “we didn’t lose we learned today”. Performance evaluations are full of language that speak more about opportunities for improvement or areas of needed growth and development as opposed to failure or weakness. Does this same mindset exist when an organization closes its doors? Not meeting your objectives as an organization in a way that leads to the unfortunate closure or shutting down of an agency is a failure, isn’t it? Or is it just a tough learning lesson for those involved in advancing the mission of the organization. What does an organizations closure do or say about those in leadership. What does it say about the employees and staff, the frontline workers? Where is the learning opportunity for the people who are out of a job or had a role in the creation and development of the organization? What is the opportunity for the people who may have had a role to play in the organization’s demise? These questions could be asked about any type of organization in any imaginable field of endeavor, yet there is added impact when we are discussing the closure of an organization whose main purpose is to meet the needs of human beings who need additional support in order develop and maintain a full healthy life in society. What happens to them? NOIRE examines these issues and reviews what the experts say.
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