Discussion Question

Can you identify and comment on personal experiences where some activity fell outside the "mission" of what you were doing. It might be that you and your colleagues took some action and realized after the fact that the action fell outside the mission. Or, you might have been planning to do something and someone in leadership said no because it fell outside the mission

     There has been multiple times where I have done things that fell outside of our mission. Most of the time, it’s done to complete the assignment. My job mainly deals with logistics (shipping and receiving cargo throughout the world). We normally schedule trucks for our cargo to get shipped in and out.  This one particular time, we needed to send some heavy and bulky cargo to an undisclosed location quickly. At that time, we started trying to see how to schedule airlift for this cargo to go out. This was out of our scope of responsibility to try and order airplanes to come pick-up our cargo. Procuring airlift is another office function. Our leadership realized that we needed to step back and let the other people do their job.