Bill Waddell has written a beautiful piece on the nonsensical extravagant behaviors of executives here. It deals with the recent fact that the government has seen the need to put limits on travel expenses for executives from companies receiving bailout money.
The following lines really hit the core.
“A guy who wears an expensive suit to work, has a company paid Persian rug in his office, and a company paid Lexus parked in the spot closest to the door cannot lead a lean transformation. In fact, that guy cannot lead anything. None of that nonsense enables him to do a better job - it just makes him look good in his own insecure eyes. Everything about him screams to the employees "I am better than you". And that is a failure of leadership in its most fundamental form.”
It is in sync with the saying that the leader should lead in humility.
Dad used to point out people like that. “Look at that man eating his breakfast on the road. He is the owner of that company but still walks up to the tiffin stall to have his breakfast.” The simplicity just awed me.
But can I replicate it, I hope to….
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That is good to follow ... but you like lexus.. and when u drive a lexus how will you not u park it in the spot ????
Dudette, what would you think of your CEO when he parks his Lexus wherever he has space.
Would his simplicity not awe u...
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