Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

Someone is paid to lead the people and manage the work. They are paid to answer, “Yes, but how are they going to do that?”

Work can be difficult to accomplish at times. And there are times when you say, “This isn’t good enough. It must be better.”

A well-meaning person replies, “Yes, but how are they going to do that?”

The answer is simple, “So-and-so is paid to lead the people and manage the work. It is their job to figure it out and do it.”

Yes but, but, but…

Sorry. There are no “buts.” Figuring out how to accomplish difficult work is someone’s job. They are paid to do that job. If no one needed to figure out how to accomplish the difficult work, it wouldn’t be difficult and we wouldn’t pay someone to do it.

Sometimes this simple little exercise sounds trite. Sometimes it sounds mean. Sorry. This is the nature of human endeavors. Leaders of people and managers of work are called upon to do these things. Let’s get to it.