I like circles, even imperfect circles. Life is full of circles; what goes around comes around, and such.
Robust Evaluation and Correction is about circling. The Bible says something to the affect of "what you don't get right, God will circle it back to you; again and again and again, until you do get it right.
Covey, in The Speed of Trust, uses a "back-and-forth" circle as visual to better describe his five waves of trust and their intersecting aspects; See, Speak, Behave.
This is a great way to show that while life is not a list of things to check off, but it's not a trip around the block either.
In this circle of life, as this diagram shows, we speak, behave, see or behave, speak, see or speak, see, speak, behave, see, or.....you get the idea.
Collins, in Good to Great, had a similiar idea in mind with the whole Hedgehog thing. I picked up the Robust Evaluation and Correction in Dennis Bakke's Joy at Work.
In any event, we can't coast around the circle, or check things off our list(s), and think THAT'S IT - DONE!. Doesn't happen that way. I'm reminded of a woman I once heard say, "I don't do housework because it never stays done."
Nothing stays done, not in an earthly since anyway.
God Bless, pay attention, and circle-back.
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