Weasel in the House!

Imagine my surprise. A couple of weeks ago I am at home alone, sitting in a living-room chair and I see something scoot out from under the couch. Startled, I get up out of the chair to see this…weasel (it’s a stoat actually, I had no idea what it was at the time - this is a picture taken in our yard) checking me out.

Then the realization…there is a weasel in my house! (Fortunately my wife was not home at the time…she would have freaked!) How on earth did that get in my house? I spent the next 40 minutes coaxing this creature from room to room until I had him confined to one room with an outside door. I then waited patiently for him to make his way back to the great outdoors. To this day, I have no idea how he got in. He must have sneaked in through the front door when one of us was coming in or out of the house that morning.

In your organization…has something unwanted, unexpected, or disruptive sneaked in when you were not looking? How is the morale among your employees? How is the culture in your organization? Have you veered off course from your original set of goals, mission, or purpose? Usually things like this happen and we have no idea how they got in there. Check your organizational house. Make sure that there is nothing unnatural going on and that there are no unwanted or unexpected surprises. It would be worse to let them go on without being dealt with than to take the time now getting things cleared up immediately. Get the weasel out of your house!