…may not always be financial or operational, but theatrical.
While working, we often forget we’re performing a role, or many roles depending on the organization.
We’re the CEO, Realtor, Barrista or assistant to the assistant something-or-other.
And in each of these roles, we’re performers or as Willie Shakespeare wrote in his all the worlds a stage verse, “…and all men and women merely players. They have their exits and entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.”
Though taken a bit out of context it is a bit of a truism and, in many instances, our performances of these roles are limited to the ones we’ve already created using scripts that have seen better days.
Creating a new performance or interpretation of a role we play, possibly with a new or improved script, may bring to light a new insight into a problem or challenge being faced.
And as a player (actor), performing your role to a Broadway-level performance as often as possible, and doing so as a theatrical ensemble rather than an organizational team might unlock some unexpected changes.
Work is a performance art no matter where one is in an organization or what one does.
And the performance doesn’t always have to be a drama. It could be a comedy once in a while.
We don’t always have to take our work seriously. Sometimes sincerely is enough.
Written while listening to Nils Frahm piano music.
The best thing I came across online over the last week. Liberating Structures – Introduction
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