Watching One's Back: Lessons Learn.

I was brought up and trained back in a time where you were to have your colleagues back and In return they should or would have your back.  But we now live in a reality that has proven this is not the standard norm for being a unit anymore, instead people would rather smile in your face and then stab you in the back if they feel threaten or  have jealous underpinnings.  The phrase that has been said so many times still sadly holds true today; keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer, but with that being said who can say is truly your friend or who is truly your enemy in our current societal make up. Of course people will talk a great game in your face just so there will not be any harsh feelings or a odd work environment, but why is it that people can not be honest with each other anymore? Why can't people explain to one another what needs to be done in order to make the unit a more effective one? Life is only as easy as an individual can make it, and with every other outside factor coming at us a whole why add to such a trying process?  Don't get me wrong, I am not saying to defend someone who is in the wrong or has a negative disposition that only brings down the group, people like that are toxic in nature and should not be apart of anything productive until their attitude changes.  But if you are a true person for change and doing things correctly, then instead of going behind someone's back and making statements or suggestions to hurt that person, take a more classy route and actually talk to that person on the side and help them grow, would you not want to be afforded the same courtesy? Now the question I send out into the world of cyberspace is how can we, in any situation, work as a functioning unit and give feedback or constructive criticism in order to meet the end goal as a team?

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