11
Our book club's 'Lord of the Flies' talk fell apart over one line
Last Tuesday in Denver, we were debating if the boys' society was doomed from the start, and someone quoted the part about the conch being broken. I said that was the exact moment everything failed, but my friend Mark argued the failure happened way earlier when they first missed the rescue ship. How do you decide which single event in a book is the real point of no return?
2 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In2 Comments
aarons365d ago
See this all the time at work. People argue over which mistake killed a project, but it's never one thing. It's the whole chain of bad calls.
6
jesseb205d ago
You're right on the money, @aarons36. It's like a domino effect. A project might start with a rushed deadline, then add unclear goals, then nobody speaks up about a bad design choice. By the time the launch fails, everyone's pointing at the last domino that fell. The fix is to stop the chain early, like calling a time-out when the first scope creep happens to reset expectations.
8