Constructive Deconstruction

Worry.

February 9, 2008 on 9:01 am | In Uncategorized | 1 Comment

I had a dream today but I can’t remember what it was about(do you get that too sometimes?). It’s left me with a very worried feeling. Ah yes. I remember.

I was in a meeting with my team(there were like 35 people or so) and I was explaining to them the future of the company. The worries. The problems. The way to move forward. Then some people started telling me how they depended on their salaries for a living. Some started to get really worried. And just before I got to the optimistic part of the meeting, I lost my voice. By the time, I got around to drinking some water and have it come back, the meeting was off and every had left.

It was just me and some other guy left. He came up to me and said something like, “You’re very prepared. But you’re a bad businessman. You don’t talk to people about the hearty issues.”

I was taken aback because I thought that was precisely what I was talking about and have been focusing on for so long. But of course, sometimes others can see more clearly our flaws than we can ourselves so I let it stick.

I could see the worry and the disappointment in his eyes. Suddenly I said to him, “If you’re going to remove me from the board, tell it to me straight up.”

His reply was short, sharp, extremely honest,

“Of course.”