Chapter 6
The Rules
19George arrived even earlier the next day at
the bus stop. He sat on the bench and
thought about work yesterday and how he
had wanted to make an impact and get
things moving in the right direction but as usual one crisis
had led to another, and he and his team had spent most of
the day dealing with conflict and putting out fires rather
than getting something done. George thought about each
member of his team and how each one contributed to his
growing problems. I should fire every one of them. The
thought made him smile but then reality set in and he knew
there was no way he could do that. If anything he was the
one who would be leaving the company before any of
them. Besides, they weren’t bad people. He had even hired
a few of them. They had just lost their way somehow, he
thought. Like a bad marriage, he figured, where you can’t
finger any one thing as the cause, yet you know it just isn’t
right. George was in such deep thought that he didn’t hear
Bus #11 pull up. When he looked up he saw Joy once
again at the wheel and her smile made him smile.