While traveling the Mississippi River, we had both a fuel tank for our outboard motor and a battery system for our electronics.
Petroleum and electricity don’t mix well, so in our design we kept the tank and the battery on separate sides of the boat.
Both powerful. Both essential. Both useful. But both better, and safer, when separate.
Sometimes lumping two good things together isn’t the best path forward.
Fish and steak rarely go well together, but are heavy hitters when served separately.
Two decisive leaders charged with making decisions for the same team can lead to more harm than good. But when deployed to two different teams, magic can happen.
There is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
It’s the role of the leader, manager, designer, architect, mechanic, engineer, artist, parent, or teacher to recognise and select for a balance of strengths in any situation.