Have you ever been on a walk in your neighborhood, in a park, or in the woods and seen a bag of dog poop just sitting on the sidewalk? I have. So. Many. Times. I genuinely do not understand it. Why would someone take the time to stop the dog, get a bag out, put their hand inside out in the bag, pick up the up dog poop, put it into a bag, and then tie it neatly only to leave it on the sidewalk? Sometimes right next to a garbage can! I am truly asking: what am I missing here? If you’re not going to throw it away, I’d much rather you scoot it into the grass so the rain can at least get to it over preserving it in a neon-green monument to an unfinished responsibility. And no, this answer doesn’t count: “They’re just going to pick it up on their way back.” I’m talking about the ones that sit there for hours. Sometimes days. In the same spot. Slowly becoming part of the landscape. (And yes, I have picked up a stranger’s bag of poop and thrown it away when I was close enough to a can even though I no longer have a dog. For those of you thinking, “Why don’t you just pick it up?”) I’m not only trying to understand if I’m missing some simple logic here. I’m also interested in how this mirrors what can happen at work. #leadingself #leadingothers