Two concepts are misunderstood, leading to confusion, contradiction, and dysfunction when applying professionalism (P) and loyalty (L). Assumptions and impermanence.<\/p>\n

Both P and L are based on assumptions, which change over time. If you cling to obsolete assumptions to justify your loyalty, you are heading for martyrdom.<\/p>\n

Professionals may be considered fickle not loyal if they don’t articulate their assumptions for taking on and leaving an assignment. There is a fine line between a rat deserting a sinking ship and a prudent exit from a lost cause. Very few situations call for arguing with impermanence and clinging to misguided loyalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two concepts are misunderstood, leading to confusion, contradiction, and dysfunction when applying professionalism (P) and loyalty (L). Assumptions and impermanence. Both P and L are based on assumptions, which change over time. If you cling to obsolete assumptions to justify your loyalty, you are heading for martyrdom. Professionals may be considered fickle not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"no"},"categories":[12,13,1,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}