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by Glenn Shepard

June 8, 2010

 

 
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“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ”

 

— Bob Newhart
 

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Dear Glenn,

      Like Leslie and Adrienne and Tracy, I consider you my leadership mentor and think you could have done Giuliani's job too. You are awesome.

    For those of us who are not as confident as you,

how does a manager/leader get that kind of fearlessness?

Kathy in Tacoma, WA

    

Dear Kathy,

    Thank you for the compliment, but I'm not fearless. Nor is Rudy Giuliani, or anybody else I know.

      Courage is not the absence of fear, it's the willingness to face one's fears.

       It was the same the first time I jumped off a diving board at age 5, as it was the first time I soloed in a Cessna 152 at age 19 (I was scared of heights), and the first time I did my stand up routine at a Nashville comedy club called Zanies at age 22, and when I left a cushy job to buy my own business at age 24.

       And where does one get courage? When you're truly committed  to something - whether it's a personal goal, or leading the people who are depending on you - there is no other option but to step up to the plate when it's your turn at bat.

      The more you master things that intimidate you, the more confident you'll become.

     Thanks for your question and for the kind words.

Glenn in Nashville, TN 

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Since I’ve been dwelling on the Nashville flood, I wanted to lighten things up this week.

In today’s era of corporate responsibility, most folks assume that drinking on the job is forbidden everywhere.

But as a recent article in The Wall Street Journal pointed out, that isn't the case.

Miller Brewing allowed employees to drink while on break until 1986. Coors allowed its employees to drink on breaks and during lunch until 1994.

Employees at Anheuser Bush-InBev in Belgium were not only allowed to drink on the job, but could serve themselves from on-site refrigerators until 2005.

But that kind of thing doesn’t happen today…or does it?

At Boston Beer Company, brewery employees are not allowed to drink at work. But workers at their corporate office can grab a cold Sam Adams from the cooler or pour one from the company tap.

At the Carlsberg brewery in Denmark, 760 employees went on strike last month after the company began limiting them to three pint-sized cups of beer per day.

The union representative argued that employees’ right to drink as much beer at work as they like is just as sacred as their other benefits, including up to a year’s sick leave at full pay and two crates of beer to take home each month.

Another employee argued, “We need to keep our beer. I need a beer when I take a cigarette break”.

At last report, Carlsberg had agreed to renegotiate employee "beer rights" if the union would go back to work. (The union didn't object to the fact that company vehicles are now equipped with an Alcolock that requires drivers to blow in to before the vehicle will start).

If you’re looking for a profound management lesson in this, there’s not one. Just thought you’d get a kick out of this story.

As the great Paul Harvey used to say, “It’s not one world”.

 

 

To Your Success,

Glenn Shepard

 

 

 

P.S. I should also mention that employees of the Jack Daniels distillery here in Tennessee are given a pint to take home one Friday per month (they call it “Good Friday”). I’m told they have the lowest rate of absenteeism each month on that day.

 

 

 

 

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