The game

Chris Colabello, first baseman with the Toronto Blue Jays recently was suspended by Major League Baseball for 80 games after testing positive for trace amounts of a byproduct of a performance-enhancing substance. This followed passing 20 other drug tests. Colabello in an interview broadcast on Sportsnet stated " I would never, have never, will never, compromise the integrity of baseball. Ever. In my life". What happened next is a lesson for anyone that has left an organization, is at risk of leaving their organization, or felt they were treated unfairly in their organization. 

The Canadian Press reported Blue Jays manager John Gibbons says players "come and go" in baseball. 

"They (the players) feel for him. I'm sure he's keeping in touch with those guys", Gibbons said. "I've texted him a couple times. But the thing about baseball is baseball keeps going, with or without you. One day somebody's gone, a manager gets fired, nobody (cares) the next day."

"It just keeps rolling," Gibbons said. "What it does is it means an opportunity for somebody else, you know? That's the way the game works."

Canada's jobless rate decreased to 7.1 percent in March of 2016 from 7.3 percent in the previous month. CEO turnover at the 2500 largest companies in the world rose from 14.3% in 2014 to 16.6% in 2015—a record high reports PwC's CEO Success study. 

This high turnover of CEOs affects large numbers of other executives. If you’re a senior team member in an organization with a new chief executive, your career now depends on the views of a person you may not know. What’s more, your history of successes and failures may not count for much. Studies at Harvard report involuntary turnover rate at companies with average performance was 24%, while the rate at poorly performing companies was 31%. If your company brings in an outside CEO after a year of subpar performance, you have about a two in five chance of leaving your job. Players come and go.

All the people I know who have found success in an organization, in their business, work hard. Very hard. But I think the real work happens before the job begins.  To gain the advantage starts with a larger lesson. That to win the race before it starts means knowing the way the game works. We can't control all our circumstances in life but what we can control is our habits, attitude, and outlook on life. The moment we accept that, everything changes for the better.