Kiss-My-Grits

I’ve known a few jerk bosses, and this describes them all: “his crime was the deeper kind: a need for subservience in others and an unwillingness to acknowledge his own weaknesses.”

Without exception, every bad boss I’ve encountered has been more concerned with creating the perception that they are in control than in identifying, confronting, and overcoming barriers or forging ahead with creative new ideas.

I’m saving this in case Jason ever gets too big for his britches.

I’m definitely a maker, living in a manager’s world. Seriously, meetings are for people who don’t have constant inner monologues.

I am in awe of the collection of ideas and guidelines here.

Life is not all grand passions, high spiritual aspirations, profound questions, and tormented inner feelings. Some of the time, our feelings are petty rather than grand, our aspirations worldly rather than spiritual, our questions trivial. Sometimes, our inner feelings—or is it just mine?—are irritable, even bored, rather than tormented. One looks a little sour; one hums a little tune. One plays with one’s spoon or keeps checking the clock.

“In a recession reality, everyone is in marketing.”