Musings on a Monday Morning from Mike Mullin…
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October 21, 2019
Good morning! As is often the case, the best weather of the entire year in the upper midwest is experienced during mid-October; the last several days have held true to form.If orange is the color of October, what color is November? Mid-October has replaced June as the #1 time of the year to have a wedding ceremony.
Wait for great.
- Will young people, the so-called generation Z, be the ones to ultimately save our cherished freedom of the press?
- Why did this labeling system start with the letter X? Will it label the now-newborns A?
- Q: “What happens if we invest in developing our people and then they leave us?”
- A: “What happens if we don’t — and they stay?” (Tegze)
- Is this apparently nouveau expression trending? Wait for great.
- I hadn’t heard it until recently and I wondered if it was part of the new lingo which of course is constantly changing.
- Its application, I think, is — especially for young(er) people — to not settle; e.g., wait for the right person, the right job, the right house, the right sandwich…
- Does it imply doing nothing until great arrives upon one’s doorstoop?
- Wait for great… does it mesh with your fundamental operational philosophy?
- Does it imply doing nothing until great arrives upon one’s doorstoop?
- Its application, I think, is — especially for young(er) people — to not settle; e.g., wait for the right person, the right job, the right house, the right sandwich…
- I hadn’t heard it until recently and I wondered if it was part of the new lingo which of course is constantly changing.
- With quadrillions and quadrillions of data floating around the known universe, who owns them?
- Do you own your own data? If so, to whom might you sell them, or rent them?
- Why do others get to sell or lend my data — and not provide me with a share of the profits?
- Do you own your own data? If so, to whom might you sell them, or rent them?
- Last Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal featured an entire section, “Women in the Work Force”. It’s excellent and worth grabbing from the coffee room if it’s still available.
- Turns out it’s not so much a glass ceiling for women as it is a significant entry-level bias. (McKinsey and others)
- If you needed to recruit and hire a new person to your leadership team, how many candidates would you want to consider?
- An organization I admire keeps and daily manages a database of more than 10,000 candidates at-the-ready.
- This business doesn’t need very many new top leadership people (maybe ~10 – ~20 per year), but talk about being ready to act when you need to act.
- Many give lip service to people being the most important asset, but very few systematize it into their culture.
- This business doesn’t need very many new top leadership people (maybe ~10 – ~20 per year), but talk about being ready to act when you need to act.
- An organization I admire keeps and daily manages a database of more than 10,000 candidates at-the-ready.
- It just took a few moments to be fully aware of the different vibe, the on-edge body language, the different-from-usual environment.
- A local store I frequent was experiencing a visit from corporate.
- The inspector was straight out of central casting: crisp white shirt, corporate-issue khaki slacks, tie, ear buds, camera, clipboard, pen, scowl, raised eyebrows.
- The staff, usually friendly and easy-going (overheard, maybe true: “We’re understaffed today!”) was being scolded, orally and randomly, with an extensive litany of deficiencies.
- The stuff was gushing downhill, as it always does, as department heads started admonishing underlings, and Etc., Etc., you know the drill.
- “This is empty!” “This needs to be rearranged!” “That needs to be redone!” “I can’t do that if you want me to do this; which is it?!”
- Emotions raw just under the surface, arguments erupted among the usually competent staff right in the midst of customers going about their business of trying to make purchases.
- Long story short: Haven’t we learned anything by now about leadership and management?
- What this staff needed, obvious from body language, was some teaching, some coaching, some support, some inspiration, heck, even a helping hand at filling those empty bins.
- My high regard for this organization went down — temporarily, at least — a notch or two… c’mon.
- What this staff needed, obvious from body language, was some teaching, some coaching, some support, some inspiration, heck, even a helping hand at filling those empty bins.
- Long story short: Haven’t we learned anything by now about leadership and management?
- Emotions raw just under the surface, arguments erupted among the usually competent staff right in the midst of customers going about their business of trying to make purchases.
- “This is empty!” “This needs to be rearranged!” “That needs to be redone!” “I can’t do that if you want me to do this; which is it?!”
- The stuff was gushing downhill, as it always does, as department heads started admonishing underlings, and Etc., Etc., you know the drill.
- The staff, usually friendly and easy-going (overheard, maybe true: “We’re understaffed today!”) was being scolded, orally and randomly, with an extensive litany of deficiencies.
- The inspector was straight out of central casting: crisp white shirt, corporate-issue khaki slacks, tie, ear buds, camera, clipboard, pen, scowl, raised eyebrows.
- A local store I frequent was experiencing a visit from corporate.
- What are you reading?
- I didn’t discover Jodi Picoult’s writing until recently; my daughter told me about her.
- Now I’ve read four (4) of her books and I must say, very impressive… check her out.
- I didn’t discover Jodi Picoult’s writing until recently; my daughter told me about her.
Rain
By Michael A. Mullin
Is there a more wonderful sound
in the whole wide word than that of rain
falling gently on the roof
while the melancholy notes of a
Haydn piano sonata blend effortlessly
with the raindrops and the olfactory
senses are soothed by
the sensuous essence of ozone?
Unless your tent has a leak.
©2017 Michael A. Mullin
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