I just got in after a 13 1/2 hour day. I’ve had several really long days this week. Several.
My new RSS feed aggregator/reader thang, Feed Demon 2.0, from NewsGator is full of good stuff left over from earlier this week.
I’m tired, the freakin’ ragweed count is over 100 and my putter is broke and needs fixin’.
It hasn’t been a great week. The wife is great, as usual, and all three daughters are treasures, but outside of that, it’s not been all that.
There’s something that just ain’t right with a corporation I’ve been working with. Something’s …, uh, off. Missing. Gone. Whatever.
Then I start hitting the highlights in the RSS feeds. I’m about 50-60 in and I see The Sethmeister has a couple of posts, so I go check those out.
It’s there. It’s been there waiting for me and I couldn’t get to it. Might have made life more tolerable, but I was kept away from it and made to suffer for naught.
Compromise.
THAT’S what their problem is. Compromise.
Once they started doing it, it snowballed and became their mantra. Instead of a rarity, it’s now the accepted way.
They’re comfortable in the mediocrity. Average is their 2.0 and they like it.
I hate people that will not fight against being average.
I hate it when they give in, but not give up.
If they’d give up, they’d quit and let someone else have a shot. If they just give in, they can stay like that forever !
EEEEWWWWW !
Can you hear their battle cry -
We’re bad and we accept it.
We like less.
We don’t care. Really, we don’t.
Please, do us all a favor – when you want to give in, don’t do it. Instead, give up, quit and get the hell out of the way.
If you have no sense of urgency, you have no value to the world of sales, marketing or customer service.
None. Nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch.
Thanks to The Sethmeister for showing me the answer to the riddle.
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Wow – great post – it’s always nice to see passion. I see you have a book “Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?” on the sidebar. I haven’t read it – but if it’s similar to the idea of “getting pigs to sing”, I’m sure it covers your story of compromise.
That compromising cat isn’t going to bark (become remarkable). The question then is – are they the right client for you?
Sorry about your putter, man!
Thanks Ann !
They’re someone who needs me, but whether or not they listen to me and become better is still up for grabs.
I’m puttin’ this story away for now. Gonna save it and do an ebook, after I’m thru with the one I’m almost done with now.
The putter’s at the club doctor and will be all better tomorrow