Convolution Revolution Anyone?

Sometimes I wonder why everything has to be so complicated. Seems to me that we spend an awful lot of time creating complexities. All the little bureacractic conundrums of daily living.

Why do we do this to ourselves? Why create knots when we know we truly do not enjoy the process of disentangling them?

It seems there is some component of human nature that drives us to these ludicrous heights of twisted behavior. As if we are drawn to the patterns created by the convolution of relationships and function. Our over-abundant focus over time on social-dogma appears proof enough of that. The scores of books on management, both personal and corporate weigh heavily in this arena as well. How much training should it really take for people to be able to work toward a common goal together? Realistically, assuming the goal is defined and agreed upon, it just doesn't seem that a football field full of literature and self-help tapes should be required to support the effort. Yet there is far more than this available to the casual effort and experts abound ready to be hired for the more seriously focused interests.

I sit here, clearly looking through jaded eyes, watching the corporate circus go by, and wonder why it is that we can't see the forest for the trees and the trees for the forest. These items are stagnant. They haven't moved, and for the life of me, I can't see how other people around me have shited either. So how is it that the picture is out of focus?

I guess it comes back to the idea that "Reality is what you perceive it as, therefore others will perceive it differently" (Thank you Mom and Dad for those pearls of wisdom.) Which translates into, don't expect everyone to see it your way. Yet sitting here with the goal on the chalk board, and heads nodding, "Yes, that's where we want to go." I can't help feeling a bit frustrated when I know we are no closer to getting there than we were several months ago when the goal was first established.

Why? Because the relationships among the players are too complex. No one knows who gets to play with the toys when, and no one is willing to share the toys - making it possible to achieve the goal. Even though it is in everyone's best interest to get to the finish line. Complex, yes, frustrating, yes, easy to solve for - No. Too many egos in the way and not enough clarity on who really wants exactly what to know if the goal is primary or secondary in the over-all scheme of things.

So I wonder, at what point we will stop creating these convoluted patterns of communication and start creating relationships that work. Or are we even capable of getting there? Does our territorial nature make this impossible to achieve? Just thinking out loud..............