Jun
29
Just finished watching the latest installment of Deadliest Catch. It occurred to me while I was watching it how much modern businesses think they are teams, but really, miss the mark completely. A team is a group of like-minded people all striving together for the same goal. They succeed and fail together.
In the military and on ships if one team member falls or is lacking, the team has a couple of options. They usually will, at first, lay into the guy, call him girls’ names or some other thing, and wait to see what stuff he’s made of. If he’s able to take it on the chin and tighten up he’ll earn the team’s respect and they will be that much stronger as a team overall. If he doesn’t, usually he’ll just wash out and go away after the mission/trip. Either way, the core team remains strong.
In modern business, it appears that it’s often encouraged to keep weak, slow or ineffective people on board. After all, everyone wants to avoid a lawsuit, right? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten in trouble for telling people their work is lacking. True, I’m not the gentlest individual, but I’d expect the same from anyone. If I’m fucking up, tell me to my face, and I’ll either show you that I’m not fucking up, or I’ll correct my behavior.
I’ll say this: there don’t seem to be any real leaders in modern business anymore.
Jun
24
My dad didn’t have a lot of guy friends when I was growing up. One or two close buddies that he had known for like 20 years made up his social network. He didn’t really need them, I guess, because he was a pretty busy guy. I can kind of see how all that works now, too. At least from a guy standpoint.
I’ve not been working my ass off as much lately. It’s been a nice change of pace, but lots of other people are working their asses off now instead. It goes in cycles like that at The Job.
I’ve been feeling better lately since I started taking the ‘cillin. Sinuses are a bitch.
Oh yeah, I’ve moved servers, and I’m online now.
Cheers.
