Another Day in the HR Field

Cancer has been on the brain lately as my dad was admitted to the hospital on Fathers Day with MSSA. While he is heading home today with a four week regiment of antibiotics to kill the infection, if he didn't have cancer in the first place this infection would not have been in his system. The source of the infection was the port they placed under his skin to easily access his bloodstream to to feed his system the lovely poison called chemotherapy. How many times do we feed poison to the problems we have in the organization unknowingly? Probably, more times than we care go admit. So how in the world does this story remotely relate to the workplace? Well, if you think about his body as the workplace and the problems as the CANCER, I hope you can follow my analogies. Workplace Problem's all have some sort of source wether it be the systems, people, inputs, outputs, procedures, etc. The symptoms like his where he was not eating and could not get up on his own are the way the c