What Is Truth?

"What is truth?" -- quote of Pontius Pilate, toward Jesus Christ, John 18:38

"No one, not even the CEO, owns the entire truth, because no one can be in all places at all times." -- Susan Scott

For us non-deities, we do well when we shrug off the temptation to be right and sincerely ask the question "What else may be true?" Going back to the beach ball analogy, if we fail to use the fact that everyone's stood on a different-colored stripe, then we rob ourselves of the best decision we can make.

Life's A Beach (Ball)

"Think of your company as a beach ball. Picture the beach ball as having a red stripe, a green stripe, a yellow stripe, and a blue stripe. Let's imagine you are the president of the company. That's you standing on the blue stripe. The blue stripe is where you live, every day, day after day. If someone asks you what color your company is, you look down around your feet and say, 'My company is blue.'" -- Susan Scott

Problems arise though, because your other departments stand on other stripes. And if everyone simply nods politely, or refuses to acknowledge that there are other colored stripes on the ball, then things stay the same or move backward.

It applies to personal lives as well as business -- we win when we follow that basic tenet of humility... acknowledging that there's more than one view, more than one right way to do things, one that might be a better fit than ours.