I have more money-making ideas than I know what to do with. If I were wealthy, I would have a stable of the youngest, best, brightest and most-attractive winners every assembled. I would pay them twice what their fellow graduates are making now, I would make them feel privileged to have the opportunity and I would work them so fucking hard they would believe to the center of their being that the earned every single fucking penny.
I would throw these ideas out on the 1-5 days a week Morning Meeting. We would discuss the idea's viability. Workers would talk up or shoot down these ideas. Sometimes it would be a "hot potato" that no one wanted, and sometimes co-workers are openly bargaining (downward) for what percentage of the gross revenues they are willing to do the Project for (with the remainder being MY share, lol).
Can you imagine the accuracy of the results of this system? (What ideas might really be workth money, and which ones are embarrassing turds that I need to forget about quickly, else I lose the respect of my staff.) I can. And that's just one idea. Okay, maybe two.
I have this rule. When I need talent, I go looking for talent. I don't sit around on my ass and wait for talent to find me.
And I have talent. So the way I do things is this:
I don't like to work for dumb people, people that lack self-awareness, people that do not/will not admit not only that they were wrong, but actually WANT to explain exactly what it was that they did that was wrong, so that 1) Everyone understands that they know what they did wrong and, 2) There may be some insight in that lesson, that may be of value to someone else. Groups that learn from their mistakes quickly run more efficiently and make you more money.
Smart people who are looking for my kind of talent know what the thing they are looking for looks like when they see it. And smart people that do not treat other smart people like dumb people. So there are a LOT of things that do not need to be stated, or asked. Brevity is the soul of wit, but it's the heart of conversational efficiency too.
So I don't waste time overstating the obvious, i have many more important things to fill this conversational space with. I send my messages with their own self-managed filter. No need to think to hard. If you didn't get it right away, it wasn't aimed at you. That's how I do things. See my next post to see what this looks like.
Okay, so one day I'm digging a hole in my neighbor's back yard,and he's standing over me watching. He thinks: I'm running the shovel, he's dressed nice and doing nothing but standing there watching me, ergo he is in charge. Presumes to suggest how I might do things, just after I explained all about what he didn't know about what I was doing.
Another time he tells me "Yeah, I'm not much for doing the "grunt work". I'm an "idea man". So, this means he figures that "idea men" dress nice and watch other people do the "grunt work".
Here's the problem. He couldn't do the grunt work. My ideas were better than his. He figured that since he couldn't do the work, that made him the Idea Man that was In Charge. Only he wasn't. I was. He was the incompetent guy that didn't have any good ideas either.
So, back to the OP.
What are you bringing to the table?
