Reap what you sow

What are you growing?

I’m lucky enough to have a little garden space and like many in lockdown I’ve been re-acquainting myself with a temporarily lost love of gardening. With an eye on a socially distanced summer ahead of us, I’ve been using the lighter evenings and weekends to make the outside space a little more pleasant to be in and also thought it was time the garden became a little more productive again.

Veg planting abounds therefore in Casa Walton, but being a house of a certain vintage, we don’t have many windowsills to propagate said seeds on and so the shelf attached to my desk turns out to be one of the best places for the growing seedlings to catch a few rays.

I may sound at this point like I know what I’m doing, but in reality I’ve only got a little knowledge and experience and am really just making it up as I go along and doing what I think is best. Without trivialising the situations many of you are facing, that’s very much how I think all of us should be as managers and leaders in this environment (or come to mention it, at any time).

To stretch the analogy just a little further, we reap what we sow and we will all be judged for a long time by how we behave right now. Colleagues, customers and the public will surely judge you not by whether you “do things better” so much as whether you “do better things”.