Bricks and Thin Walls

What are walls made of?
Bricks, you would say.
How do bricks become walls?
By staying glued together with cement, of course.

Zabrina went one step further by asking : What if, in order to save costs, in some sections/corners the builder put in other things instead of cement: example : sticks, stones or mud? What would happen to the wall? Just imagine: some parts of the house has bricks cemented as wall, others has mud as the glue factor. Imagine a house that has 1 part cemented with cement, 1 part with glue and the rest with mud.

Would the house be equally strong everywhere? Would you feel safe living in a house that one part of it is just waiting to fall down? Would you even consider living in that house?

Life is a bit like that. Maybe. Most probably.
Even if the part where the bricks are being held together by cement, would not be able to stand firm against a strong wind. The weaker parts will pull the strong part down as it falls.

Someone was suggesting to boss to organize a team building session for the whole Sales Department. Team building? Cat and boss were exchanging surprised looks. Does that someone knows the meaning of that word? That someone answers : 'yes. we will all go to the beach, play volleyball together, eat grilled freshly caught fishes, snorkelling..

Ah, that is called 'going on a holiday'. Not 'team building' certainly.
Being a 'team' would mean helping one another. If one of the colleague tells you that she is out of her wits trying to manage 3 accounts at the same time, while you currently do not have anything on your hands, what do you do?

There are 2 choices: Try to see what you can do to help (give some ideas, take over one of her smaller account) or you can just pretend not to hear, see or notice. If we can share something good with the other team members, something that can benefit the whole department and make the wall stronger, then why do we not do it? That is a better description of 'team building'. We would want our team members to be strong and supportive. No back stabbing, no telling tales about one another.

Well, it's not an impossible task. Only that it would need us to patiently put cement layer upon layer of cement on each brick and giving a helping hand to those who are slow so that all can have a rest at the end of the day and enjoy a nicely built house that has strong walls..

Signing off,
aidahana