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Leadership, The Art of Pissing People Off

Leadership is an art and those that do it best piss a lot of people off. It can’t be helped. If you like playing nice then stay put as an employee or better yet stay home and let the government take care of you. There is no trophy for everyone in business. There is no participation awards. If you can’t play and play well then sorry you are going to sit on the bench. Now I will make a side not to that, you don’t have to hit that ball every time you are up to bat. No but you do have to get to bat and you must swing. After a while you will develop some skill that will at least get that ball in the air and hopefully you to base. Let’s talk about pissing people off. Sometimes I love it, especially that old fart that thinks they know everything. Of course, that is feeding my own ego, but hey it keeps me swinging.  Some people will say management starts in the boardroom, but actually it starts the day you first shit your pants. Seriously you just accomplished your first task of get