Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Everybody wants to be me. But they don't want to bruise and they don't want to bleed..... -John Rich
It seems like everyone wants to be a Millionaire, and not only that but feel that they deserve to be a Millionaire. One of the many problems in this country is that nobody thinks they need to work for it. Through my 30 years at the Eastman Kodak Company, I came to the conclusion that there are two kinds of people that I have little tolerance for..... Those that CAN'T do their job and those that WON'T do their job. I had a friend that had a good example of the people who CAN'T do thier job. His job description was 'Machine Operator'. With this title, he knew that when he pushed a button, the machines job was to do A then B then C, etc. Meaning he knew not only what the machine does, but how it does it. There were others with the job title of 'Machine Operator' that would push the button, and if the machine didn't work, would throw their hands in the air and declare "I don't know what's wrong with this machine !!!", and then they would become the WON'T do their job people by leaving the machine for someone else to fix the machine. There are far too many people out there that have that 'someone else will do it' mentality, and too few 'people that will do it'.
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