Company Car Question

[Will Gill]

Kind of reminds me of essays at school, you had to hit a word count, so bulked out the genuinely interesting content with utter dross.

 

[DM]

Let me give you a preface to your Career Smarts book, I'd really urge you to think about this before you create another speech from the mount.

To make the complex simple requires genuine talent. To make the simple complex is why we invented consultants.

Here ends the lesson, £2k please.

A few years ago I had a gent work for me who wrote like you. He too was positioned to me (I inherited him) as a consultant. Reality was he was a failed sales person who had gained small amounts of knowledge from various places yet felt able to tell the world how they should do what they do. His writings reminded me of you, his approach was to throw a wall of noise at things and keep throwing so the basis of the point was diluted, for his knowledge was at best suspect. He had many annoyances too, not least his love of 'the next big thing' usually something cheap and tacky that resembled something expensive and effective. He was very disorganised too, couldn't hold and audience due to his need to demonstrate his depth of knowledge where none existed and generally being a boring person. He last 7 weeks at which point I removed him. I'd not heard from him for a few years and he approached me a few months back for a leg up, using the same 50 page emails I'd seen before. Sufice to say my number did not appear in his received calls list.

I share this as I see much of him in your 'verse'. When a point is made move on. Constantly seeking others approval or agreement is the act of someone who's confidence is superficial. I don't care that you think you can lecture me on competence not because I don't think I can always learn new things but because your diatribes are pointless and trying to elevate the point more see's you increase the problem.

Preface is yours, now **** off and write your book, I promise to read it and I'll even buy the first 10 copies and share them with friends.

I got one like that still working for me, i wish he'd nick something so i could sack him.

 

[VFM Addict]

@ Will Gill & DiamondMark

Oi….you two. If I saw you dressed in Drag one night for a Charity Do or a bet should I conclude that you were pre-operative transsexuals and dressed like that 24/7 365? I’ve several hundred posts on OCuk and you won’t find a long one at all before this thread or one written in the style used here. Take a look also at the very start of this thread even. No long posts there either. Kinda raises the question as to why my style is so very, very different here, doesn’t it?

I basically said early in this thread that there are a number of approaches that truly extraordinarily successful people adopt and that it takes more than just being good at your job to rise up. I said that from an eye witness perspective. I also said I’d considered writing a book about the approaches I’d observed that worked. For brevity I used a shorthand term to describe that set of approaches calling it, Career Smarts. TBH it’s no damn different from remapping an engine. Good engine remapped equals more powerful engine, right? The trouble was that some of the Master Debaters around here perverted what I was saying. Just as if I were to pervert their own shorthand term by saying – “Remapping !!” What a load of twaddle how could putting a new Map book in a good car make it go faster.”, or, “Don’t be idiotic, if that was possible the manufacturers would have done it themselves in the first place.”

Recognising the superb logical thinking ability of some around here I adopted a certain approach. One far different from my usual (as I said you can check that out as being true). One thing I guess you know as well as I do, you can never beat Master Debaters. I knew that from the start. But if you play the right drums they will stamp their feet, rant, thump their chests, try to demonstrate their superiority, try to intimidate and often expose their own anger management issues all at the very same time. Rather like a Maori Haka. I love watching Maori Hakas, don’t you? This kind of thing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=c-lrE2JcO44#t=7s

Anyway must get back to work at Haka Developments soon. So no more interruptions please when I’m trying to work. Fairs, fair. After all, do I stand at the end of the alley heckling you when you’re pleasuring gentlemen who pay good money? (Truly only joking chaps. I’ve seen no ranting and foot stamping from either of you two. Oh, BTW just for a laugh, check out who had the longest post in this thread after mine while claiming he liked to get to the point. I love it here. I truly do.)

Stay with this thread chaps. Take the time to read the posts in full. I think you might possibly like some of what comes next. The replies from Team Haka or their inability to think of any could be fun to watch.