The Rules of Management, 3rd Edition

RULE 67

Visualize your blue plaque

When you write your bestseller and then die you will get a blue plaque on the building where you were born, or lived, or wrote the damn thing – just so long as it was in London.* When I say ‘you’ I don’t mean you, I mean whoever it is that lives there after you’ve snuffed it. This blue plaque is there to commemorate the fact that you did a good thing while you were alive. If you didn’t do your good thing – i.e. write your bestseller, add to the sum of human literacy, manage to afford to live in London – you don’t get a blue plaque.

Now imagine that there is a blue plaque for management style and it’s not limited to London. What would you get yours for? Would you in fact get one? Basically, how would you like ...