Power is a crazy thing eh?
I ask because it is something that has been weighing heavily on my mind. Where does power come from? Do I have any? I hope the answer is yes and sometimes I think I do, but then, no. Am I being steered or am I steering? Which are you doing?
These days at work I wonder who has the power. Dragon Lady thought she had it for a while, but ah, power is fleeting in an atmosphere like this, no? It is so transitionary, so like her cigarette smoke- impossible to handle, often unhealthy.
Our team worked to unseat some of our leaders who were doing a terrible job by any measure and guess what? It fucking worked. Unbeeeelievable to me. Simply unreal... does this ever happen? But the highs come back down so quickly no? So much so that I might feel even lower now than when I was under the Dragon Lady's thumb, but in an oddly different way.
Let me explain. Over the last few weeks we had our VP walked out of the building. You have read that right. WALKED OUT. Fucking unreal, still can't believe it. Anyway, had her walked out then had the Dragon Lady pretty much pushed to the side (pushing karma? :) only to have this other team to take over. Well respected folks from a different group took the reins- seemed to have a good idea of what they were doing and presented their ideas well to me.
Since then they have worked to sideline and keep most of us in the dark about where we are headed and how we can help. The very people who worked to move new leadership in are now not being recognized as the thought leaders that they are. Who are? Damn good question. They are using input from a combination of their old people (Sphynx and Flama) and those who gained the most from the previous 'leadership'. People who got promotions and offices from the terrible VP and Dragon Lady are now steering the boat... Hmmmm.
Let's take a step back and think about this. Let us realize a couple of things, namely that the power that we now have is that we are totally integrated and should be pursuing new, exciting ways to make us successful. However they are going back to their comfort zones and places where things are easy (and unsuccessful).
Who holds the power? Those that are not afraid to be successful.
I ask because it is something that has been weighing heavily on my mind. Where does power come from? Do I have any? I hope the answer is yes and sometimes I think I do, but then, no. Am I being steered or am I steering? Which are you doing?
These days at work I wonder who has the power. Dragon Lady thought she had it for a while, but ah, power is fleeting in an atmosphere like this, no? It is so transitionary, so like her cigarette smoke- impossible to handle, often unhealthy.
Our team worked to unseat some of our leaders who were doing a terrible job by any measure and guess what? It fucking worked. Unbeeeelievable to me. Simply unreal... does this ever happen? But the highs come back down so quickly no? So much so that I might feel even lower now than when I was under the Dragon Lady's thumb, but in an oddly different way.
Let me explain. Over the last few weeks we had our VP walked out of the building. You have read that right. WALKED OUT. Fucking unreal, still can't believe it. Anyway, had her walked out then had the Dragon Lady pretty much pushed to the side (pushing karma? :) only to have this other team to take over. Well respected folks from a different group took the reins- seemed to have a good idea of what they were doing and presented their ideas well to me.
Since then they have worked to sideline and keep most of us in the dark about where we are headed and how we can help. The very people who worked to move new leadership in are now not being recognized as the thought leaders that they are. Who are? Damn good question. They are using input from a combination of their old people (Sphynx and Flama) and those who gained the most from the previous 'leadership'. People who got promotions and offices from the terrible VP and Dragon Lady are now steering the boat... Hmmmm.
Let's take a step back and think about this. Let us realize a couple of things, namely that the power that we now have is that we are totally integrated and should be pursuing new, exciting ways to make us successful. However they are going back to their comfort zones and places where things are easy (and unsuccessful).
Who holds the power? Those that are not afraid to be successful.
