This is the tricky part …
You feel something has gone wrong, you have been treated unfairly, you have seen someone else being treated badly and they are losing out..
If you open your mouth and complain then you become the ‘pain in the backside‘, the one who always ends up raising the issue, always being troublesome, the one to be avoided in the future.
In some ways maybe you are better off just saying nothing … Let someone else be the one to complain or raise the issue.
We rationalise that maybe that is actually the best approach, bite the lip, say nothing, stay in line and stay in favour, surely someone else will ask the question?
All of us do this all of the time because it makes sense, we think about the bigger picture and we decide to be strategic. Surely this is the best way to win?
Every time we do this someone gets away with something that maybe they shouldn’t and bad practices become a habit – with power and influence on their side bad practice becomes an even bigger habit and it goes on and on.
Before we know it we are reading awful stories about sweet deals, favours, corruption, embezzlement, back handers and abuse … we read about Jimmy Savile and wonder how could such terrible, shocking things happen. Who is to blame?
When we make a decision to say nothing it becomes all of our fault.
Dr. Martin Luther King famously said “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”
Say something ..
Greg Canty Fuzion Blog 