Here’s one for politicians, leaders and project/programme managers of all types everywhere.
Success is ephemeral but the possibility of chaos is eternal (paraphrased from Niall Ferguson’s High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg, 2010, Allen Lane).
One of the great “benefits” of accumulating years is that you get to be a participant in, and observer of, many periods of transition and change – some turbulent, some with positive outcomes, and some less so. I’m therefore, inclined to be with Ferguson/Warburg on this one.
Pessimistic optimism seems a good maxim lest Hubris calls forth Nemesis 🙂
