Ugly Sweater
The ugly sweaters inundating your life are a gentle reminder.
Amidst the chaos of threads and abhorrent design, a small amount of joy and warmth can always be found.
Aside from being a winter staple, it is a metaphor for your team.
On its own a single thread has limited use.
It has some strength but will fail under too much tension.
A thread has a unique contribution to offer, but also needs partnership from a broader system.
The combination of threads creates an interwoven system that offers something to the world.
The end result is rarely exactly what you expected when you first began.
Your team, in all its ugly sweater glory, is the perfect garment to fall back on whether the times feel cold and dark or call for celebration.
Great teams are rarely a perfect knit.
Great leaders bring the threads together.
They also have the confidence to appreciate and celebrate the genius of their ugly sweaterness.
Why are latte’s incomplete in December? Because they have noel.
- Morning Cup