The gift of freedom to learn your own career lessons.
CEO’s are vulnerable because they get handled. No one wants to point out the CEO’s blindspots or weaknesses because of the assorted socially perpetuated hallucinations about how doing this is bad for your career.
PS. You are the CEO of You, Inc.
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Should you be let go for our obvious, gross negligence?
Will celebrating milestones help your culture thrive? Of course. Yet it’s astonishing how many people know it but do not actively design their corporate human resource practices with intentionality.
It’s Sunday, January 25, 2015. Who cares? No one.
But what if we recalled that January 25 was jungle jeff’s very first day with the Walt Disney Company?
But it was so long ago, 1982, that it no longer has relevance or value to today’s work.
Epic failure.
Hard to appreciate the Mississippi River without the knowledge of it’s headwaters.
Most of your employees have no knowledge of your founder. Not even if their life depended on it.
(photo: Eyes and Ears is a large Central Florida publication… it’s common to see this everywhere in the Orlando area)
If she was a chef like the mouse in Ratatouille and experimented with every type of food and crazy combinations people would call her a lunatic (until the end of the movie).
If he was Mr. Incredible and couldn’t help himself from trying to catch the bad guys even though he no longer works as a superhero people would call him a freak (until the end of the movie).
If she wanted to join the men-only army to save her father, people would label her insane (until the end of the movie).
What inspires us to push through the labels and do what we feel in our heart needs to be done?