“You can buy a man’s time, you can buy a man’s physical presence at a given place; you can even buy a measured number of skilled muscular motions per hour or day. But you cannot buy enthusiasm; you cannot buy initiative; you cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds and souls.
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“Loose Hands Hold More Cookies”. I got this from my high school friend Chapman Godbey, currently a Commander in the US Naval Service. He had offered (via Facebook) to a friend who is new at managing corporate staff. I suspect that Chap is an excellent leader. For more Chap-flavored wisdom, see here for his Navy
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Be tight on goals, loose on methods.* I share this advice frequently with clients who are learning to be good managers and leaders. If you tell your staff exactly how do to their jobs, you stifle your company on every front. Your staff won’t have a reason to think, grow or contribute. They won’t have
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I invoiced a new client late Wednesday night via email. “To process at your convenience,” I wrote. On Saturday I found their payment in my PO Box. Wow. With this new client, I can now count four current clients who pay their invoices within ~48 hours of receipt. At least three of these clients describe
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Coincidentally related to my last post, here’s the current mantra of my friend Jen: Discipline is remembering what you want. Discipline is remembering what you want. Discipline is remembering what you want. And, of course, doing what it takes to get what you want.
Discipline without wisdom is pointless. Wisdom without discipline is fruitless.
“Be Quick But Don’t Hurry” — John Wooden’s top advice to his UCLA basketball team that won ten national championships in twelve years. Adds the coach: there is never enough time to be sure (and if you are sure, you’re probably too late), but you must always keep your balance. Wise words in any time,
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. – Steve Jobs
In Terry Gilliam’s extraordinary movie, Brazil, protagonist Sam Lowry works in the government’s Information Storage department. Later, he accepts a promotion to the much more prestigious department of Information Retrieval. Businesspeople and citizens deal with information all the time. We have access to more than we could ever digest. Our critical task is to somehow
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On public radio this weekend, a financial industry expert mentioned two places where Lehman and other big-firm staff might end up: (1) in the offices of boutique firms that can get top financial expertise for a lot less money, and (2) in the offices of growing firms that want to harvest the wisdom of people
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