The MBA management: yesterday is my partner
and I Jimmy 12 anniversary together. I pick up my phone to call the florist
pint, a friendly lady. I tell her: "today is the day and I love, I would
like to order a bouquet of roses." I know she must have thought these
roses are for a woman. Although I've been out for 31 years, but when I told her
what to write on the card content still a tense: "dear Jimmy,... love you
Danny." I waited for her suspiciously like most people ask: "you mean
jeannie?" But the lady immediately understand.
Last week, the house in addition to the
company to send someone to my home in addition to the worm. People ask me:
"are you Mr. Smith?" I said: "no, my name is ray parlour tower,
my partner is Mr Smith." "Your partner?" He asked. I was in his
house was questioned by a stranger. I suppress, replied: "yes, mate. We
are" comrades "." "Oh," he said only a sound. Though
he tried to make a pretense of being indifferent, but he's obviously hard to
accept the concept of "partner".
People always thought that
"comrade" once "coming out" is total and but, in fact, a
orientation firm "comrade" often to come out again and again. You to
abroad, for example, on a business trip, the taxi driver while chatting with
you, ask you have his wife and children. Even as you have been exhausted, but
you still have to pull ourselves together and to meet once a stranger about gay
rights and interests. How they will respond you completely lack in his heart,
and you also expect him to drive you to the airport; In this case, the cabinet
need courage. However, you still again and again to tell strangers their
orientation, because this is you, because you already understand should not hide
their true nature, who is your partner. Hide their nature is a betrayal of
yourself, is also a betrayal of the one you love, children. So, no matter how
tired how busy, you always can't avoid this problem. You have to like the jedi
to defend the real yourself, to defend your own truth.
Stand up for truth is a kind of ability,
this ability is like a muscle, the more the more advanced the practice. I have
done a lot of the nonprofit sector, according to my observation, a lot of
people in the field of letting her "muscle" slowly degenerate. When
they enter this line all want to change the world, but under the economic
pressure of relentless soon lost enthusiasm. Them all in your head is how to
reduce costs, have forgotten how to defend the truth, how loudly declared:
"I'm here to change the world, nothing and nobody can't stop me."
Business is the same. Employees see the
enterprise product quality, customer service or safety standards of declining,
but 'mouths, stand by and do not hesitate to go against their own values and
even the company mission, this kind of phenomenon is especially serious in
management. However, if an airline company every employee can do to the poor
customer service "zero tolerance", just like a lesbian resolutely refused
to conceal her spouse is a woman, the airline there is hope. Dare to stand up
for truth, is the basic quality of a leader.
In reality, we all encountered poor quality
products and services, this is because the leaders of related businesses failed
to stick to the truth in terms of quality. My parents just bought a well-known
enterprise production of flat TV, only to find that the TV speakers behind the
screen, back to the audience, simply can not hear you clearly. Why could such a
product listing? Because the whole enterprise up and down the hundreds of
thousands of employees did not say the words. Jimmy and I booked a few from a
fashionable furniture retail kitchen stools, the results of the arrival of the
goods time later than the scheduled date for six weeks. In the meantime,
retailers can't always tell us the delivery status of this a few seats,
customer service representative says this is because the European suppliers and
their "communication". Why do retailers and suppliers? Because of the
supply chain from the beginning to the end no one willing to be picky, and
annoying.
Microsoft's Surface tablet soon, existing
users reflect fracture appears where the computer keyboard and screen
interface. Microsoft had to do this product durability test? If didn't do it,
why don't you do that? If done, why will know the defective products on the
market? Responsible comrade ideas are likely to follow a formal before coming
out ideas about: "why the fuss? No big deal." But the real after
coming out, he will realize that this is how important, his life will
completely change. Tell the truth to the influence of enterprise development as
a tank for comrade.
