Enterprise Design Patterns | Impact Patterns

#11: Leaving

“Quitting is not giving up, it's choosing to focus your attention on something more important."
- Osayi Osar-Emokpae

Related Patterns:

You have been working as an Enterprise Designer for a while now. After some time, you realise there is a mismatch between you and the environment you work in.

In this context:

You have tried to find ways to bring value to the enterprise. You have tried every pattern in the book. Yet, you haven’t found a way to dance to the rhythms and music those around you dance to. You are not giving up because things are hard. You decide to leave because your own music doesn’t harmonise with your current environment. You then reach a point at which you will have to decide whether staying on and pushing further will have any positive effect.

Therefore:

You make a conscious decision to stop putting your time and energy where it does not contribute to positive change. Before you leave, you do a post-mortem to identify why your efforts didn't work. What would have to be different for your efforts to have been successful? What was missing? What obstacles did you encounter? What can you learn from this, so you won't repeat the same pattern next time? What criteria come to mind for selecting your new employer?

Consequently:

The only failure is the failure to learn from what went wrong. When you decide to leave a bad situation, see this as a learning opportunity. Using what you have learned will improve your chances for success in the next challenge you take on.