Certainty is an Illusion

The first person walked into a staff meeting today of an up-and-coming, growing organization with a great reputation, only to find out they had lost $200,000 to $300,000 and were in jeopardy of being shut down in less than 3 months.

The second person who worked at Target walked in one morning, and over 50% of the employees in his highly successful department had been fired.

The third person works at a new non-profit and is working to build a new type of school that has never existed before. They have money in the bank to pay people for the next 3.5 months.

Which one of these people lives within an "uncertain" organization?



















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