Business As Usual

This term might strike up frustrations towards a government administration.  It might conjure the image of an evil corporation.  But these connotations are not what I want to talk about.  A better reference that I'm thinking of is "The show must go on." 

Business as usual doesn't have to reference an ominus cog that will just keep turning; road blocks, legislation or people's lives be damned.  "Business as usual" or "the show must go on" has the feel that no matter what, you have to go forward.  You have to deal with every problem because the world will turn without you.  Wherever you go, there you are. 

Far too often I see people's fear or people's anger overtake the duty they have to each other.  I'm not talking about some so called duty of charity.  How many do you know that take on the problems of others without dealing with their own?  That's not charity, it's avoidance.  That is what I'm talking about.  More specifically a corporate leader who avoids answering questions.  A Vice President of Sales who only deals with people that are buying and ignores the back end.  They hope the problem goes away or is dealt by someone else.  That is not business as usual.  That is lack of gratitude to those who have believed in you. 

"Is he angry?" Should NEVER come out of the mouth of a leader.  Who the fuck cares, maybe that customer has a right to be angry.  Maybe the less you deal with it the more angry that customer becomes.  Maybe it's as easy as listening or maybe it's something you might have to spend an hour on.  None the less a leader in the company without integrity, without the strength to deal with problems as they arrive is not business as usual.  It's cowardice to your own emotions. 

In a pack of wolves, cowardice will get you ripped apart.  Men are scarcely different than a pack of wolves.  They will tear you down unless you show leadership.  The type of leadership I've spoken about before.  Not dealing with a problem will make those with integrity either leave you to die or destroy you themselves. 

Perhaps that's why "business as usual" strikes an accord with angry Americans.  They've come to relate that term with the sickness of not dealing with problems or seemingly to deal with problems with no results or worse. 

In current events of the world I do not mourn or celebrate killing.  I do see the dealing of a problem.  This would be an example of my "business as usual".  A problem removed.  Actually dealing with it.  Complain about how it's ten years too late.  That's fine.  This has been sooner dealt with than some problems of others I know.