Appreciate the link.

How true it is! People seldom see the other side of things.

I remember a M*A*S*H* episode where the officers and enlisted guys traded jobs for a day. The expected hijinks happened, but it gave each side a deeper appreciation of what the other goes through.

Last year at the Golden Globes Awards (I think), Angelina Jolie was roundly criticized for sitting quietly and looking “serious” and glum while Brad Pitt was getting all the attention. Turned out, she had learned earlier that day that her mom was dying of cancer and only had a short time to live. When I read that, I thought, here’s someone who would seem to have it all, yet she can’t even react normally to such devastating news because she’s expected to be “on” all the time. I expect that if she had stayed home (like most of the rest of us would have done) she would have been criticized for not showing up at all.

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Listen, my emails keep getting bounced back if you read this call me!

Good list and how true. The yes man syndrome is real, if you’re not careful you will think you’re the brightest bulb in the box, but in reality having someone tell the truth or give you their insight is what a leader needs. This is not to say that the other points in your being a leader sucks, but just recently the “yes” issue was very real.

I enjoyed the article.

PS - If you don’t like that I said “his”, tough luck. I think in terms of my own life, and I’m a guy, and that whole he/she his/her thing where people feel required to put both genders every time is annoying.

Since my wife is a hard-core gamer (World of Warcraft), she doesn’t have a lot of time to instruct me on how to change them (I think the ones that don’t work need to be changed); therefore, I have a lot of burned out bulbs.

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Your opening paragraph pretty much sums up what the average employee thinks their bosses job is all about. Having been in positions of leadership in both the public and private sectors, I have to agree with most of the items on your list. Particularly no. 6 and no. 7. When going to the store you tend to dress differently in case one of your employees happens to run into you. The most dramatic difference is highlighted by no. 7. At work you can be responsible for multi-million budgets and large number of employees, yet when you get home your spouse is convinced you can’t change a light bulb without instruction.

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