Like you aspire to be like them? Want to here their words of wisdom? If so, what does that even feel like?

"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

It was a manager I worked with in my late teens. He was an excellent boss, very fair, fun, and caring. Gave me great advice, that I luckily took, but didn't see the fruits of it till much later.

She works in the fashion industry and admired a designer named Andrew Marc.

This is where it gets funny. She ended up having a son and named him Andrew. Few years later she moved to NYC and eventually ended up working for that designer. Still works for him.

and now, 30+ years later my nephew also works for the designer his mother named him after.

his daddy is from Cleveland and Black af.

ain’t nothing to side eye besides using family to get a job and that’s the American way.

for that designer

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Does that make you work harder for them?


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

>Does that make you work harder for them?

I work hard anyway I just did more brown-nosing

Although he wasn't my direct report to...I worked on a team that was lead by a brilliant Dr

Absolutely brilliant

I was familiar with his research...but he was the kind of brillance that could take very complex topics...and ELI5

Not even in a condescending way

We would present the information to him at meetings...and in real-time...he could process, analyze, and make conclusions from the information

As a team, we would collect date, information, meet throughout the week, etc...and sometimes we just couldn't come up with a plan

At our once a month meeting with the lead Dr, he could just nail it, in such a simple way, it was really impressive

Definitely a person that I would want to aspire to be like

But after awhile, it was more aww than anything

Especially the longer I worked there

Other team members were still Drs by the way

But Dr Whyte was always 3 steps ahead of all of us

https://mrri.org/people/john-whyte/

It was a privilege.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

once I got into a position of leadership

I would say that qualifies.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

No competent OR Smashable people in leadership!??

My outlook is this: you want the people who work for you to actually WANT to work for you

Before I started driving, I had a Boss, who ended up giving me a ride home once(40 minutes out of his way) because he held a Team meeting that went long and I missed my bus

From that Day forward I was giving it 110% for that Dude

In fact, I think you can be a stone cold sociopath and it would probably help your career.

I've managed people and it feels pretty easy to be liked and respected by employees. Be fair, transparent and make them feel like you will fight for them. Do that and people will go the extra mile for you. But I have to say I never had a boss I felt that way about.




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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Can’t say I admire him but I definitely admire his ambition.

We get bdays off, he encourages us to take all our vacation time
He invest in our educational training and pushes for people to start businesses

and he’s quick to be on some “yo, happy hour on me..”

Def the best decision I ever made as far as work culture is concerned.

We had worked together on a project. And then she went back to hq and everything went back to shit. So I quit. Got a job at staples. The Friday of my going away party I get a call from her admin freaking out.
“We heard you were leaving”
“Yup”
“You need to come to hq”
Got on a train that lunch. She offered me a hq spot.
Then for the next 3 years she was my sole and biggest advocate in the organization as she moved up to two positions below the Postal Master General and then took a downgrade to be area VP.
She signed off on my green belt and black belt project, put me in for numerous promotions and awards and even gave me some personal advice on reconciling with my sister.

I’ll never have anything like that again professionally. It helped so much.

Older white lady from Delaware. Came up as a carrier. Didn’t care about much in life except getting the mail to the people especially vets. There had been huge improvements on veterans mail for years solely because she relentlessly cared to make it happen.

You should let her know. People love to hear from people good stuff like that.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

only I had no desire to be a part of 'the system'.

I work on a scientific research journal. I'm a publishing professional, but I work with researchers, physicians, scientists...etc.

The founder of my publication has a disease named after him.

My editor-in-chief was on the forefront in identifying AIDS, in the 80's.

One of my former bosses is one of the experts you see on all the Sunday morning TV news shows, discussing COVID.

To be these great intellects, several of these folks are surprisingly down to earth.

I admire their work, and their commitment to research.

>Like you aspire to be like them? Want to here their words of
>wisdom? If so, what does that even feel like?
>

friend.

I gained a lot if wisdom from him and became a better person/colleague through having him in my life. We worked together for 8 years. I use the wisdom he gave me over those years every day. It was truly a blessing to work with him. He served as a mentor for some pretty amazing people.

He passed away a few years ago. He meant so much to me that I when I heard he was very sick, I flew there to say goodbye. His passing affected a lot of people but we all look at his passing as a call to continue the work and honor his legacy.