Dear Diary,
I finally get to see the seeds I planted and nurtured with all my innate and learned leadership – “Executing Excellence.” (I know you love how that rolls off the tongue as much as I do, don’t you Diary?) I’d be planning my Gold Cup trip again right now if it wasn’t for those jerks in marketting and managed care. I forgot! I need to someone remind me! I get a Gold Cup every year! I am certainly glad now that I thought of that accountability measure while sitting on the ADB compensation taskforce! I know Grubie loves me after that meeting. I convinced him that pinching pennies might be in his nature but it was unseemly for reps not to have the pleasure of an ABM during their reward trip! I know Grubie is a little short during conversation but he’s learned something from me. I must ask him where he gets his shirt sleeves shortened. I suppose a special tailor just a little way away from his office…
I feel these are trying times for a leader like me. I have always said “leaders listen”. I thank god every day that I have that little voice inside I listen too. I only remember once that my little inside voice wasn’t loud enough for me to hear. I mistake my little leadership voice sometimes for the voice of “Little-Bill” but I haven’t heard from him since 1982, except for that one time when Paigee…err…umm…ahh…oh there’s Little Bill! I missed you little buddy!
I can’t afford not to hear my leadership voice this time around. I couldn’t hear my little leadership voice and I lost $3.78 million in the crash. I had to sell my Jag, my Corvette and my boat back then. I don’t think I could stand to sell my newest boat the “Me Two”. I’d have to get someone to cry for me. I hear that little leadership voice now though. I hear “Big-Bill, don’t let up with the leadership remember the advice that got you here: Think outside the box because it’s a win-win so give 110% of synergy for a value added paradym shift because the net-net is taking it to the next level before taking it off-line to strategically hit the ground running for ROI while keeping our eye on the ball for low-hanging fruit pushing the envelope by having uncomfortable conversations about best practices using the 80-20 rule of moving forward to bring our A game, proactive.” I know my little voice is right this time!
I find these little chats with you diary to be very relaxing. I need coffee (where is Gregwhich anyway? I see Kirklyn; I love giving those people opportunity to work for me). I could use a Cuban to from that special box Ernest Hemingway smugled out for me after Jack screwed that Bay of Pigs plan I gave him (I told him the plan needed the backing of the Canadians before it could move forward!). I hate editing - thank god I invented grammar check during my year at Harvard med school before the Knicks recruited me. I got to update the grammar rules – of course I can start every sentence with “I” – stupid machine doesn’t know genius when it encounters me does it diary? I talk to you later diary. “Accountability Stops Here” – BigBill.
I finally get to see the seeds I planted and nurtured with all my innate and learned leadership – “Executing Excellence.” (I know you love how that rolls off the tongue as much as I do, don’t you Diary?) I’d be planning my Gold Cup trip again right now if it wasn’t for those jerks in marketting and managed care. I forgot! I need to someone remind me! I get a Gold Cup every year! I am certainly glad now that I thought of that accountability measure while sitting on the ADB compensation taskforce! I know Grubie loves me after that meeting. I convinced him that pinching pennies might be in his nature but it was unseemly for reps not to have the pleasure of an ABM during their reward trip! I know Grubie is a little short during conversation but he’s learned something from me. I must ask him where he gets his shirt sleeves shortened. I suppose a special tailor just a little way away from his office…
I feel these are trying times for a leader like me. I have always said “leaders listen”. I thank god every day that I have that little voice inside I listen too. I only remember once that my little inside voice wasn’t loud enough for me to hear. I mistake my little leadership voice sometimes for the voice of “Little-Bill” but I haven’t heard from him since 1982, except for that one time when Paigee…err…umm…ahh…oh there’s Little Bill! I missed you little buddy!
I can’t afford not to hear my leadership voice this time around. I couldn’t hear my little leadership voice and I lost $3.78 million in the crash. I had to sell my Jag, my Corvette and my boat back then. I don’t think I could stand to sell my newest boat the “Me Two”. I’d have to get someone to cry for me. I hear that little leadership voice now though. I hear “Big-Bill, don’t let up with the leadership remember the advice that got you here: Think outside the box because it’s a win-win so give 110% of synergy for a value added paradym shift because the net-net is taking it to the next level before taking it off-line to strategically hit the ground running for ROI while keeping our eye on the ball for low-hanging fruit pushing the envelope by having uncomfortable conversations about best practices using the 80-20 rule of moving forward to bring our A game, proactive.” I know my little voice is right this time!
I find these little chats with you diary to be very relaxing. I need coffee (where is Gregwhich anyway? I see Kirklyn; I love giving those people opportunity to work for me). I could use a Cuban to from that special box Ernest Hemingway smugled out for me after Jack screwed that Bay of Pigs plan I gave him (I told him the plan needed the backing of the Canadians before it could move forward!). I hate editing - thank god I invented grammar check during my year at Harvard med school before the Knicks recruited me. I got to update the grammar rules – of course I can start every sentence with “I” – stupid machine doesn’t know genius when it encounters me does it diary? I talk to you later diary. “Accountability Stops Here” – BigBill.