The concept of a cheat meal is an interesting one.
You go on a diet to get healthier. Obviously the craving for junk and unhealthy food increases and staying on course can get challenging.
If you do manage to keep temptation at bay, you can give yourself a treat in the form of a cheat meal.
Many people undo all their efforts of eating healthy over one cheat meal. Even though it’s called a cheat meal, it comes with certain stipulations. Indulge, but don’t over-indulge. Indulge to the point where you don’t overturn your own efforts.
This concept, if done right, works in a diet. A little cheating here and there need not spell disaster.
What if there is a team which has a member who isn’t a team player and is toxic? It’s just one person but the result can be devastating. It’s something a leader can’t afford to ‘cheat’ on.
What if a player hides an injury, just once, to be a part of the team? The injury can bring the entire team down and the blow to their integrity can be massive.
The accountant who decides to fudge the books once, the car company that decides to cheat on crash test results to get the car into the market quickly, all of these are instances of cheating and can be very hard to recover from.
Before you consider lowering a standard, overlooking an obvious issue that needs to fixed, supporting someone who is detrimental to the team, ask yourself if it is worth cheating on.
