Sitting in the Houston International at 5am, waiting to board a flight to Atlanta, then on to Walt Disney World, my hometown. It has been a humbling couple on days to be surrounded by some of our Country’s finest Medial Centers any where in the world.
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Don’t Take This Personally
Yesterday’s post probably ruffled a few feathers. If you’ve ever owned a Dog, training them to be great pets is very difficult.
Why?
Because they can not understand our language. We can not talk to them with a rational voice.
But the inexperienced pet owner simply says the same thing in a louder voice.
The pet isn’t ignorant. The pet owner is. This is a hard pill to swallow if you’re struggling with a pet that won’t listen.
Actually, the pet is listening, but what they hear would surprise you. It sounds like this, “Blah, blah, blah, blah, Spot, blah, blah, Spot, blah, blah”.
Many of these relationships end at the local pound.
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Yesterday’s Point
Your salary will be different if you are a manager or a leader.
Managers can make good money. Leaders in the same industry make even more.
The more money you make, the more you can do.
Being a manager is hard. Being a leader is even harder.
And then there’s being a business owner.
Hugged Your Employees Lately?
Ever been an employee on the front line most of, or all your life?
Leaders, do you have any idea what it’s like to spend your career working for people like you?
Your employees complain about you as much as you complain about them being high-maintenance, needy, and whiney. It’s simply a fact of life and any amount of denial is ignorant.
Most leaders are good at never letting their employees see or hear this. And employees are good at keeping their secrets too.
Quite amusing actually, because neither one thinks the other knows.
Maybe we simply learn to tune it out the same way we slowly, steadily tune out our declining health, and fail to ever make transformational changes to reverse the slow, steady, and sure signs.
We medicate ourselves with our work, with our misery, and we flock to people who share our pain and frustration.
When maybe, we should find that emotional strength we found buried deep inside us that was rediscovered in the days following 9/11.
Maybe then we could justify hugging our employees. Maybe then transformational change could begin and a new era of teamwork and respect could have wings of hope.
MBAs should be pass or fail
Ever have so much to say that you don’t know where to start?
Sitting here, fingers on the laptop keyboard, I’m hard pressed to find the right place to begin.
And as someone who has worked professionally for 36 years, been to hell and back (twice), overcome addiction, overcome (an invisible) disability, constantly struggles with health challenges, and generally has the weight of the world on my shoulders, inspiration for today’s post should come easy.
But it’s not.
Maybe Sundays would be better off as a “day of rest”.
If that would prove valuable, I’d like rant about MBA degrees. In searching for an MBA program that would suit my ADD, high achieving, aggressively unfancy, professionally antagonistic, uncommonly insightful, intuitive, and overall impatient personality – this may prove helpful in annoying people enough to change.
MBA degrees should be pass or fail, and require a three year commitment.
At the end of your studies, if you do not have a profitable business, you fail.
However, if your tax return, for your entrepreneurial business, has turned a profit, you pass.
And a few moments ago, it seemed as if today’s post wasn’t going to happen.
It’s good to disagree, and I respect you if you do (and most of you do). It’s also good to measure usefulness. Try taking your MBA degree to the Bank. See how much they’ll give you for it.