Greeting Gimbels. Hope all is well this fine Friday evening.
I'm just getting back from Cincinnati. There was an interesting company retreat today where we heard speakers on teamwork and building better communication channels. Bla. The cynical side of me just wants to roll my eyes. "How do you build TRUST?... What do you do to midigate CONFLICT?" It's one self-help book title after another. Have you ever noticed the amount of motivational marketing / sales books at the airports? There are TONS of them. And TONS of theories, thoughts and best practices, experts, models, drawings, graphics, bla, bla, bla...
I mean, REALLY. Who is this guy to tell me how to deal with people? There is no secret formula for conflict resolution. No secret formual for teamwork. Who in the world buys into the idea that there is a formula that can be replicated and work in every instance for any corporation in the world. Come-on. If there is one thing I learned from Calculus, it's this - Even if you have a formula, there are going to be instance when it doesn't work. You've got a formula, thinking its working, X toward 3...and BAM there's a hole. For no reason. Nothing you could have done to predict it. It just happened. There are no absolutes. You take-in all you can. You write a formula and you move along your x-axis. But you do also have to continue be flexible. You have to vigilant. You have to listen, learn, re-write formula and move on.
Anyway. I'll get off my soapbox. I've had enough of that today.
The good news from my trip is that I'm now typing this blog on my new 15" MacBook Pro. It's a beautiful machine w/ remote and built-in camera. I also received my first-ever blackberry. Yup. I'm on of those really important people that can't wait to check their email and needs to be connected at every point in time. Similar to doctors, my craft is so important that I have to be constantly on-call.
Crazy.
I love you and yes, I love to swear!
-M
3 comments:
very interesting post. I know how you feel. Being a management major basically all I learn is a bunch of junk like that. Right now I'm taking "leading and motivating teams and individuals" and "organizations and organizational change". I'm not sure how much I'm getting from these classes, but in the long run I'm getting a degree and that's all that matters.
-karl
nice. i would like to expand on that or at least give my prespective, but i'm feeling a little lazy. its sunday night. just want to say i love you guys
-ryan
Hey Margie, you write really well.
-Rusty
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