Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/07/10

Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 6/07/10

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June 07, 2010—Issue #38

This week’s focus point: Alan’s Fifth Law of Social Dynamics: There is usually a good lesson inside a bad situation. When the recent perfect game was “stolen” from Detroit baseball pitcher Armando Galarraga because of umpire Jim Joyce’s bad call on what should have been the final out, the pitcher accepted the injustice with equanimity, and got the next batter out. Joyce, viewing a replay of his error later, when into the team’s locker room to personally apologize. The Detroit fans gave the umpire a standing ovation the next day and Galarraga brought out the lineup card at the beginning of the game and shook hands with Joyce. Therein is a great lesson in sportsmanship from players, umpires, and fans, otherwise unavailable had the game been “perfect.” Perfect is the nemesis of “good.” We all ought to stop worrying about perfection and its attendant baggage, and try to be as good as we can be at what we do and who we are. That’s more than enough.

Monday Morning Perspective: The pearl is only the oyster’s autobiography. — Fellini

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