Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/27/12

August 27, 2012

Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 8/27/12

August 27, 2012—Issue #153

This week’s focus point: In the Little League World Series U.S. finals two days ago, Tennessee had a ten-run lead going into the bottom of the final inning. But California never gave up, and scored ten runs to tie the game! But in the top of the first extra inning, Tennessee scored nine more runs and finally prevailed. The kids and coaches on both sides never gave up, never complained, never became victims. They just kept swinging the bats. If you’re not in the game, you can’t swing the bat, and if you can’t swing the bat, you can’t get on base, and if you can’t get on base, you cannot score. That applies to your career and mine, as well. If we sit on the sidelines carping and whining, we can become excellent victims, but we’ll never score. It would be nice to think we can be as smart and mature as 12-year-old kids.

Monday Morning Perspective: Don’t pity the martyrs. The like the job. — Humorist George Ade

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