Love this...especially the mysterious and important meetings where secrets are shared! :-)
I remember one mysterious and important meeting I was to attend to support you and your leadership team in Chicago in January. It was going to be 2 degrees and very windy that week in Chicago. As a born/raised southerner, I was very concerned and expressed my concern about traveling to this meeting in this very cold climate. I raised my concern to you...and you said "I have a great idea" - thinking you were going to move the meeting to Atlanta, I said "yes....what is your idea?" And you said..."When we have the meeting in Chicago - let's be sure to have it indoors." hahahahaha...I'll never forget that.
Love this Friday Thoughts edition! Great advice - as always, Walt!
Sometimes the hardest things to do are the simplest "in theory." A great set of questions that force one to think one's way through a messy situation. I remember a friend's "three questions:"
1) Does it really need to be said?
2) Does it really need to be said now?
3) Does it really need to be said now by me?
A few years back the WSJ had a good oped piece "Are You a Confident or Over-Confident Boss? Here's How to Tell" by a prof at Dartmouth. Good stuff.
Love this one. In fact, one of the most powerful moments in my career was when a boss called to say, "I'm sorry, Donna, I was wrong about that one." It was you, Walt:).
Dunder Mifflin's slogan "Limitless Paper in a Paperless World", love it, Walt!
Love this...especially the mysterious and important meetings where secrets are shared! :-)
I remember one mysterious and important meeting I was to attend to support you and your leadership team in Chicago in January. It was going to be 2 degrees and very windy that week in Chicago. As a born/raised southerner, I was very concerned and expressed my concern about traveling to this meeting in this very cold climate. I raised my concern to you...and you said "I have a great idea" - thinking you were going to move the meeting to Atlanta, I said "yes....what is your idea?" And you said..."When we have the meeting in Chicago - let's be sure to have it indoors." hahahahaha...I'll never forget that.
Love this Friday Thoughts edition! Great advice - as always, Walt!
Sometimes the hardest things to do are the simplest "in theory." A great set of questions that force one to think one's way through a messy situation. I remember a friend's "three questions:"
1) Does it really need to be said?
2) Does it really need to be said now?
3) Does it really need to be said now by me?
A few years back the WSJ had a good oped piece "Are You a Confident or Over-Confident Boss? Here's How to Tell" by a prof at Dartmouth. Good stuff.
Here's my reflections at the time: https://tinyurl.com/wybevdb2
I certainly do miss these. Thanks!
Love this one. In fact, one of the most powerful moments in my career was when a boss called to say, "I'm sorry, Donna, I was wrong about that one." It was you, Walt:).