<story><title>Belling the Cat</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>wkrause</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve always felt a connection to this story in my professional life. I&amp;#x27;ve been in enough rooms full of &amp;quot;ideas people&amp;quot; who will spend an entire meeting talking about tools that should exist or processes that need to be changed, if only &amp;quot;someone&amp;quot; would implement it. It&amp;#x27;s about work that everyone agrees someone else should do. Everyone wants the cat belled, no one wants to do the belling.</text></comment>
<story><title>Belling the Cat</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belling_the_Cat</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>JKCalhoun</author><text>&amp;gt; The term has become an idiom describing a group agreeing to perform an impossibly difficult task.&lt;p&gt;My more cynical take has always been that it is about the bravery of the group, cowardice of the individual.&lt;p&gt;Or, more charitably, the good intentions of the collective that nonetheless fail in practice.</text></comment>