THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND AND I LOVE IT! - THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

THIS IS GETTING OUT OF HAND AND I LOVE IT! | 2007-06-01

I come in here and I am as surprised as everybody else about what is being done.

READ THE COMMENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are REALLY out of it if you don't.

One example:

In a comment, one of my best writers here mentioned that he was lost in the computerese of people like SysOps and BoardAd (sic).

Me, too, and it's GREAT!

There are few accolades that have made the difference to me in my life, ones I keep repeating to myself. One of them is when SysOps said, in passing, that you should listen to BOB when it comes to management skills. It was NOT written as praise of me, it was a simple statement of fact. ALL of the compliments that have made my efforts worthwhile have been this way, simple, straight statements of fact, as when the coal miners said I spoke for them.

The "trick" in my management style is, as usual with me, so simple you don't NOTICE it. As Chairman of the Board, I don't need to know what SysOps and BoardAd are talking about. The point is that I'VE GOT SYSOPS AND BoardAd. THAT is what a real manager works with.

As usual, what I DO is what others THEORIZE about. When you get the BEST, get the hell out of the way! I don't need to know their biography to know that SysOps and BoardAd probably spend their days being micromanaged by some dunderhead who doesn't come up to their left toenail.

IF they can get jobs at all. I know first-hand that most managers are terrified of people like that.

Then THE BEST PEOPLE are allowed to come here and go ahead and DO it! I am giving them their dream, the one a decent society would have them doing while the dunderhead they work under would be emptying their trash baskets.

I don't even want to dwell on the SHAME of this to our society. I just get less angry and more determined. If society insists on handing me their best, I am not about to object to it. I am trying to get the society where this shame will STOP.

COMMENTS (3)

#1 Alan | 2007-06-01 17:37

Real talent works behind the scenes, those ordinary folks who make things happen with out anybody ever knowing they existed. Syops did one hell of a job with the blog, it is amazing, they are a rare breed. We can all be thankfull for their selfless dedication to our cause and Bob I am proud that you have these selfstarters, I have talked the talk but failed to walk the walk, my hat comes off to everyone.

#2 BoardAd | 2007-06-03 21:24

Thats one heck of a compliment Bob, Thank you!

#3 Sys Op | 2007-06-04 18:19

<blockquote>IF they can get jobs at all. I know first-hand that most managers are terrified of people like that." -- Bob W

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Anyone who understands this will say to and about Bob the same thing... listen to Bob about managing a winning, passionately alive (small) team of people. It took me many years and an "ahaa" scene that indicated to me and those who heard it what my "problem" was. Their facts and reasoning were not true. But it was my LACK of something that made me "untouchable." I still just don't tend to believe it, men can "fake" their brilliance with other men (I worked and played with a few like that) using some "leading" techniques to keep things driving forward, but women cannot usually get away with this (unless they're big-boob-blondes no fault or credit to themselves). From my experience, their only protection is a savvy superior, and that is sabotaged routinely.

Not being a fearful person at all, just rather naive and trusting, I never realized that FEAR is the absolute prime motivating factor and people will sacrifice ANYTHING else in an attempt to SAVE themselves from whatever invokes it. Whether it is fantasy or reality, they will sacrifice and do anything to escape it, even their very lives and fortunes and/or those of anyone or anything they come in contact with.

Do I understand? Yes. It is not biologically or culturally sound for any woman to have direct rulership over men. The religion of PC and its insanity are the only real reasons we have have women in congress or state legislatures and we can look around and see how things are going. It only works for a short time when every man knows that her mindset and direction are in direct association to the man she is married to, or the ones who are her trusted counselors or the one SHE takes orders from.

If men can find savvy women who understand and enjoy all that, you've got an EXTREMELY valuable partner -- for EVERYTHING you do.

I completely understand when Bob recounts his experience with female mercenaries.