At the end of ALL THINGS CONSIDERED today, the final host question to panelist was “what will Jay Leno take over next?”

I am a not a late night TV view of the traditional broadcast channels but what I have learned is this: Leno’s prime time TV talk/variety show is a big failure and now GE/NBC wants to put him back in the late night spot that Conan O’Brien now holds. Leno had “retired” by late night and O”Brien has respectable rating currently in the spot.  No matter — out with the new and in with the old. Give Leno a “promotion” even though he is failing — forget, ignore, deny O’Brien’s status placement and contract.  Although this maneuver is probably less widespread than it used to be in the workplace, it still exists. I have had many coaching assignments where counter productive behavior  has been ignored to make way for a promotion. Luckily I have been pretty successful with these situations; I may not in the future and I know colleagues who have not been.

To stand back and take a holistic view of what is going on and determine what is the best resolution for all parties involved can be done. It just is not done enough because of ego, arrogance and or expedience. It will be interesting to see how this TV situation works out — I hope Conan gets his pound of flesh — in his case $45 millions I am told — and more.