To Burn a Bridge You Must First Build a Bridge

Seventy years ago today the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, twisted, rolled and gyrated itself into oblivion. It is evident when looking at footage of the collapse, that it was the best thing that ever happened to commuters in that part of the state, the bridge was just two lanes. What a traffic nightmare, but it goes to show that you must first have a bridge to destroy it. In the corporate world we spend a ridiculous amount of time building bridges, in fact it mostly seems that we build bridges simply to avoid using the existing bridges. And if you have forgotten or neglected an existing bridge, building new bridges on ground already covered is perfectly okay. In life it doesn't work like that, a neglected bridge is likely to be burned or might as well be burned, and unless there is a symboitic relationship between the two sides, rebuilding a burnt bridge is, it turns out, difficult. I suppose this all is a way of saying, your elders were right, don't burn your bridges.