Wherein we learn that the Shakespearean maxim ‘To thine own self be true’ applies to soccer teams as well
A few years ago, a colleague of mine was griping about another employee: essentially, that he wasn’t able to change, wasn’t capable of certain things, could be something other than what he was.
Knowing the employee’s limitations as well as his strengths quite clearly, I responded as such:
“A duck is a duck, and it can’t be a fish.”
This is not an indictment of ducks. Ducks are fine. Ducks do what they do very well.