Ill timed flatulence is God's way of letting you know you are taking things too seriously.

Diplomatic - efforts to maintain relationship with dips

Are we creating Centers of Excellence or Hot Spots of Vague Competency?

Communication has not happened until acknowledgement is received.

Randori - concept in martial arts applied to business. Multiple attacks are parried until one can be dealt with allowing more focus on the remainder.

Great pressure turns coal into diamond... Or crushes it into a powder to be blown away in the wind.