“Lead me not into temptation,” sang country artist Lari White a few years back, “I already know the road all too well; Lead me not into temptation / I can find it all by myself.”

It’s a chorus that makes us silently chuckle, but after a few moments of reflection, we understand that this is, at heart, a sobering statement of the human condition: “Lead me not into temptation; I can find it all by myself.”

A certain man was visiting his psychiatrist. Among the many questions the doctor asked was, “Are you bothered by improper thoughts?”

“Not at all,” the man said. “The truth is I rather enjoy them.” And we do enjoy them, until they get us in real trouble.

Futurist Faith Popcorn in her Dictionary of the Future introduces a new term that has crept into the vocabulary of the workplace. She s…