Beautifully written. Thank you for sharing his story as a reminder of just how important it is remove any hint of short-cuts, advancements, hook-ups or promotions based on anything but hard work, expertise, dedication and capacity, not skin color, gender, last name or where you come from!
I wish we could get this through our skulls. It's not a hard concept. We have enough experience to know how various forms of scale-thumbing backfire. We're stuck on stupid, with the pendulum careening violently to and fro. When there shouldn't even be a pendulum at all.
Promote on performance, character, nothing else. Maybe someday we'll see it.
If there were a global syllabus for leadership, this would be on it.
Thank you Carlos.
American Leadership Legend! I’ve always wanted to know if his comment about the Marine Corps is authentic or apocryphal.
It’s definitely a good quote.
Beautifully written. Thank you for sharing his story as a reminder of just how important it is remove any hint of short-cuts, advancements, hook-ups or promotions based on anything but hard work, expertise, dedication and capacity, not skin color, gender, last name or where you come from!
I wish we could get this through our skulls. It's not a hard concept. We have enough experience to know how various forms of scale-thumbing backfire. We're stuck on stupid, with the pendulum careening violently to and fro. When there shouldn't even be a pendulum at all.
Promote on performance, character, nothing else. Maybe someday we'll see it.