Obviously you aren’t a thought leader. Self-assess and flush out your opportunities for growth. We’ll circle back once you’re in a good headspace.
Please hire me to consult. I have 100% EE retention over 18 months. It’s stupid fucking easy to keep people, but it takes a weeeeeeeee bit of effort (not money, not perks).
It’s where we deep dive into the low hanging fruit to reduce our touch points to beef up our value-adds. Is that in your wheelhouse?
Sent this the week before going on vacation to one of our groups: I’m out of the office next week but am setting up training sessions for your group on Tues & Thurs, as we normally do. Jim & Carol will be able to edit and make changes, if needed, so contact them directly. On Tues, 15 emails sent only to me inquiring about an additional session on Wed and changing times for normal sessions. Fucking. Idiots.
Seriously. What the fuck does thought leadership even mean? Oh...you mean providing thoughtful insight, in a leadership role? Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
Give him a Tommy Boy speech in reply. "Look, I can get a good look at a T-Bone steak by sticking my head up a bull's ass....wait, it has to be your bull."
We had a consultant help us find a BPO company that used this phrase to tell one potential supplier that their RFP response was good but not quite specific enough. I found it to be incredibly rude and condescending and made a mental note to never use it.
On a national conference call. Someone forgot to mute their phone and start talking to someone in their office about how "boring as fuck" this is.
Damn. If I was presenting I would have wanted to do something depending on number of people on the call.. maybe not "hey buddy. Shut the fuck up." But something morE subtle....if I was clever.
I get that he's in the middle of a shitty speech about ideally marketing with and for customers and not just to them or at them. But that has dick to do with context.
So google tells me. I enjoyed it. A lighthearted way to describe how when we offer new functionality to a client, they’ll ultimately keep asking for more.
I’ve had people come in before my time is up in a conference room and tell me they have the room. Someone’s liable to get murdered that way.
Then there’s the good ol’ ‘standing appointment’ that isn’t actually booked. People hate when you take ‘their’ room.
I dropped If you give a mouse a cookie around one of our new hires a few years ago. He had never heard of it but googled it and came across all the spinoffs. He assumed they were all commonly used in the same context, not that he really understood the context anyways. So we'd be having normal work conversations and he'd drop "If you give a pig a pancake, right?!" Huge WTF moment for everyone else and silent chucklefest from me.
Anyone have really watered down titles? The place I recently left made pretty much everyone with a report an AVP and there were multiple directors in each department, plus they changed most client managers to directors. It was impossible to know who actually had standing or accountability in a given area.
My wife's company has managers who manage a process, then supervisors who manage those managers, and then managers (again) who manage the supervisors. So basically it's impossible to tell how important someone is if their title says manager. maybe that's standard, but I've always worked for smaller companies with a lot less title nonsense going on.
A guy I know just posted on Facebook that he got a new job, his title is Sales Trainer and Motivator Specialist
What sucks is that people actually give a shit about that stuff. My company is very flat. We have very few impressive sounding titles and we have run into situations where customers feel like they arent being treated as important because they aren't talking to "the assistant group vice president of directors overseeing bullshit" and we have to actually explain how important someone is for them to calm down. People put weird weight on that stuff. I also have a customer who recently went through a big merger between 5 companies. There was a huge power struggle about titles when they brought everyone together so they ended up letting everyone keep their titles. This fucking company has FIVE CIO's. It makes no fucking sense
Creative agencies are particularly bad about this. You’ve got kids coming out of college into AVP titles.
We have an Account Executive we hired from a competitor. His title was going to be AE but he complained saying he was "Regional Director" at his last company. He doesnt manage anyone or have any other responsibilities but to sell enterprise accounts but now his title is "Senior Regional Director". Always makes me laugh because he starts off conversations, "As a Director, I feel we should do...". You ain't a director of shit. Go sell something.