Hey Folks!  Your friendly neighborhood Keegan here.  Figured you hadn’t heard from me yet, so I’d leave you guys with some thoughts on theatre, business, and amalgamations.

Background

The first time I ever thought about doing theatre, I was six, maybe.  At that age, everything is about wonder and magic and imagination, and theatre heightens the world through all of those avenues.  I remember even now the moments I first shared in the theatrical experience.  I loved all of it, making and wearing costumes, painting and coloring, acting on the stage, writing.  It’s no wonder that I’m so scattered on my resume – there’s no one thing that I love more than anything else in the theatre.

In high school, I began to help run theatre programs, taking on more administrative roles than I had before.  It was here that I found that my penchant for business, which had heretofore…

This post is inspired by a reader who writes,

“I believe that leaders make decision not based on what is right or wrong but what is relevant in the context.”

Most leadership decisions are about good, better, and best, not right and wrong. They aren’t moral.

Moral decisions aren’t compromised. Options,
on the other hand, are explored and modified.

Treating non-moral decisions like moral – right or wrong – choices, establishes adversarial relationships. Church people do this when they fight over methods, programs, or the color of the church’s front door.

Treating options like moral decisions makes
you look like an out-of-balance fool. Chill out!

Options have a good, better, or best. Explore, explain, and lobby for the option you think is best. Give reasons and data. Then make a choice.

Don’t be offended, but non-moral
choices can always be improved.

After choices:

Passionate implementation, not second guessing,  follows decisions…