There’s always that one monkey wrench that gets thrown in your way at some point on a project, in your path on the way toward a goal, hanging in the sidelines, dooming completion, throwing you for a loop, — and it’s okay, really.
We have this tendency to want order in our efforts – of course everyone wants things to stay the course, go as planned. But that’s just not the way things often roll out – right? Particularly in tenuous times, and times of big change, with strategy and planning crucial to risk assessment. Meeting after meeting, analysis reviewed, organizational aspects in place, it’s still difficult to be certain.

So what can you do about it? Instead of fretting about what was supposed to happen, what you hoped would happen, consider this: monkey wrenches enable

1) Strategy evaluation
2) reorganizing
3) Creative thinking
4) Expansion of ideas
5) Opportunity for employee growth
6) New analyses of current, past and future
7) Change for some who need just that
8) Opportunity in a way previously not realized or foreseen

“Everything we do has some effect, some impact.” His Holiness The Dalai Lama