Business Poem #9 - Two Poems About Decisions

Poetry is often the best way to express deep emotion, toil, angst, and trouble. Many managers struggle a great deal with making decisions - some become physically ill at the thought. Here are two poems about heavy business decisions.

The Decision Sonnet

The work world weighs on the manager´s mind

What to do among so many answers

Facts, folly, invention, and hope intertwined

At stake are jobs, people, clients, and dollars

Choice is fear is chilling and a horror

The weak defer to willing surrogates

Then become inert and anemic leaders

Jeers to the managerial cheapskates

The lions of the workplace must rescue

Teams, their puny peers, and enterprise

Courage and strength can produce a breakthrough

Proactivity and strength make them wise

Decisions, while tough, are management metal

They build character, strength, trust and muscle

The Decision Haiku

Oh, the angst of choice

Acid churning, can't think straight-

Big leap, then relief