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Don’t Be Bossy
If You’re Not the Boss
October 9, 2004
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But you lost. What’s worse, you weren’t Boss. People all of a sudden took stock of all the crap that they endured from you. They remembered how hard you were on them. How you had scolded and lectured them. How you had demeaned them and made them feel small. How you had pushed them and placed demands on them. They thought about what a hard ass you were and how much they didn’t like it. By God, they realized, we don’t have to put up with it anymore. We can get rid of her. So they did.
Ruling the day is a dangerous game to play, even in real life. With success, people will rally to your side. With failure, they will abandon you. They will revel in your defeat. Your ball-buster style of leadership is unforgiving of failure. It demands success. There is no room for error. You have to get it right. Every. Single. Time. The ten dollar difference between your winning and losing may not sound like a lot, but it was the difference between people coming to your side and people turning on you. You came up a few dollars too short, and they took you and your whip down.
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You shouldn’t lose sleep over it. Somehow I think you know that you don’t have the warmest personality out there. You knew enough about yourself to realize that you weren’t going to win by winning friends. You were going to do it by winning allies. You were going to show people the way to win and, in doing so, they would see that it was smart business to ally themselves with you. But you didn’t. You shouldn’t knock yourself for it, because you can’t win them all. You know that. But if you’re going to boss people around when you’re not the Boss, you had better deliver. Back in the real world where you are the Boss, you’re going to do just fine.
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