Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 5/13/13
May 13, 2013—Issue #190
This week’s focus point: I don’t believe others intimidate us. I believe we allow ourselves to be intimidated through self-limiting beliefs and lack of self-worth. My experience in board rooms is that there is present the same insecurities, emotionalism, turf battles, uncertainties, and poor judgment that exists on the factory floor or in the sales force. They are just playing with higher amounts of money (that’s not their own). Titles and position do not create character, only business cards. I’ve met professors so bigoted that they are pathetic, and CEOs so vacillating that I want to shout, “DECIDE!!” Generally, the more initials after one’s name, the more suspicious I get. We are all individuals of worth and value to others if we choose to be, and once we act that way we can stand toe-to-toe with anyone. In fact, often that’s the only position from which we can be of real help.
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Michael Bates
This is exactly what I needed to read as I begin my next project search! Thank you, Alan.
Simon CA RCA LSP CRT LLB
Alan, you make a fine point.
Especially the letters after a name on a business card, I deliberately restrict mine and don’t include my library membership. I wish others would do the same.