my recommendations.
A client wanted us to accelerate an audit.
I believed the schedule could safely be shortened.
The committee disagreed.
For a moment, the old chief operating officer inside me wanted to argue until everyone accepted my solution.
Then I looked at the charter framed on the wall.
No organization should permanently delegate its conscience to one person.
I withdrew my recommendation.
The audit continued on its original schedule.
Three weeks later, the team discovered that a supplier had altered a battery coating without proper testing.
The delay prevented
