Truth & Character Thursdays

“Often what people don't say or leave out, tells the real story.” ― Shannon L. Alder

As always, I don't claim the following to be especially smart. Just a thought that I had, maybe it is interesting for your. Your negative feedback is even more welcome than positive feedback.

When you have to take a (difficult) decision, be very clear with yourself that not taking a decision to do something is the explicit decision not to do something.

Commission means doing something, omission means not doing something.

Say you run a company, you need to change the strategy because your thought about how the future will be like has change. This means jobs will be canceled and the people holding them will need to find a new job. If you decide to not act, you have decided to not trust your own strategy.

Say you are an employee but you do not feel the company is going well or you start to learn less and less. If you decide not to act - leave your job, negotiate for a different job, you are taking the active decision to leave your fate in somebody else's hand.

I believe the concepts of omission and commission come from the law. If I have it correctly, the concept is that as free people failures of commission are just as bad as failures of omission.

Sins

When was the last time you realized you had committed a 'sin of omission' by staying silent or inactive?