Chapter 71. Go Home
“Many managers follow the notion of busy fools and confuse hard work with long hours. They think because they work 15-hour days and forget their children’s names, they must be bloody good managers. The best sales manager I worked with never once worked beyond 5:30 p.m.” | ||
| --Caspian Woods, From Acorns—How to Build Your Brilliant Business from Scratch | ||
Another manager I worked with stayed late, got in early, skipped lunch, and kept his head down and worked hard every second he was there. Guess who got promoted over him? Yep, Bob again from Rule 70. Mr Cool Dude.
One of Bob’s favorite lines, to me anyway, was, “Go home, Rich, go home. You’ve got a young family, go home and see them before they forget what you look like. Either that ...
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