LE "Lighten Up!"

I thought my organization is always filled with laughter and celebration.

It's not that we always have to be as optimistic as possible, but it is surely important not to be too serious all the time too. In order to enhance the best of teamwork performance, being severe and serious is sometimes important but the leader should not give a wrong prescription of that serious atmosphere.

It is true that jokes and fooling are not always beneficial. It sometimes makes people angry and frustrated which might lead the teamwork to fall apart and that, we want to avoid definitely. So we should use jokes in constructive way and this is often difficult that requires some thinking before joking.

I think the last point of this chapter's expedition log: "Can you laugh at yourself?"is the essential part of this chapter. Even if one leader is really capable of any work, smart and perfect person, if he/she can not laugh at themselves, it means that the members of the group can not laugh at the situation. If you want to lighten up the atmosphere of the team, first thing you need to do as a leader is may be to laugh at the situation even if it is so serious or dark.