Cold Hard Reality

"To aim is not enough, you must hit!"

German proverb

This does fly in the face of all our exhortations to our children that doing their best was more important than winning, doesn't it?

But at work?

Either you do or you'll end up not doing somewhere else.

Prepare Now For The Next Economic Tsunami

"There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job."

Peter F. Drucker

American writer/educator/business consultant

One good thing about the severity of the recent recession is that it eliminated a lot of unproductive labor and management along with, no doubt, some productive people as well.

That's the downside to tsunamis, both literal and figurative ones.

If you're standing when one approaches you may well not be after it's passed over you.

However unlike the real wave, during difficult economic times there is some judgement about who stays and who goes.

The more productive you are the better chance you have of surviving.

It's What You Get Done, Not What You Do

"It's not enough to be busy.  So are the ants.  The question is:  What are we busy about?"

Henry David Thoreau

19th century American naturalist/philosopher

The apparent suggestion that what ants do is not all that important, aside, there is truth in this.

How much of what you do for a living is "important"?

Is whatever that is enough to justify keeping you?

Them, NOT Me!

"Much ado about nothing."

William Shakespeare

16th century British playwright/poet

How much of what you do at work does this describe?

How about those you work with?

Working With What You've Got, Not What You Want

"Politicians say more taxes would solve everything.  And the band played on."

"Ball of Confusion"

The Temptations

Whether it be government or business, there comes a point where more money is not the solution.  

Nice to have too much rather than too little but since most of us never do, we have to know how to make the most of what there is.

Do you?