Sunday, December 14, 2008

Better Late than Never-- A perfect description for advice

My apologies for not writing a blog this week. Much like so many I've talked to, I've been suffering from a cold, and had no energy level whats0ever. I didn't miss a single hour of work, but I definitely didn't do much else.

One of my very best friends, Mike Davidson of Winnipeg questions:

Put yourself into an impossible work environment where you feel you are doing your best to succeed and are getting held back. Put me in that situation, where I'm aggressive in my dis-content. What advice can you give me?

My Italian demeanor, is much like your demeanor, when I feel I'm getting wronged, held back, not treated properly in the workplace, or not being promoted on my abilities, I am very direct in taking it up with my superiors. It has been both a key in my successes and downfalls, but it helped define exactly who I am professionally. I doubt I'm as colourful at it as you are, and I'd absolutely love to be a fly on the wall when you took up a matter with a boss you felt was not taking your best interests into account.

My advice. In the entertainment business, you've found yourself being the boss all too often with guys who had much larger egos than even you, correct? How did you feel as a boss when they came to you to ask for more money, complain about their treatment, or attempt to better position themselves within your workplace?

You are in the great position to see it from both sides, and consider that when making your approach. If it's not fixable, and you must exit, you are the smartest and most capable person of creating his own success, so you'll do just fine.

To the rest of you who just read that advice, sorry I was so specific knowing the person asking as I did. But its useful to anyone who is in an unhappy place professionally, there is two sides to the equation. Put yourself in your bosses shoes, very rarely is a boss trying to sabotage his company to make you unhappy.

Shandra asks:

What are the greatest challenges a woman like you encounters on a daily basis?

Shandra, I write this as I laugh, because you have made me write an answer that will make me look like a complete egotistical idiot. My greatest challenge every day, is dressing myself. I don't like to ever wear the same combination twice. So every night before I go to bed I do some figuring of what top I'm going to wear, and in the morning decide my lower half. I've made it a habit to cycle through clothing every 2-3 months to ensure I don't ever get seen wearing the same thing twice.

My job is not a challenge at all, it's a rush, and I can do it in my sleep, but it doesn't challenge me at all. I hope that if my co-workers read this, they are happy with my professional performance, otherwise I will have just offended them to no end.

I currently find it a minor challenge adjusting to life in Vancouver. But my GPS helps a great deal, and I'm even starting to meet a friend or two.

Domo, a sports-fan inquires:

If you were named General Manager of the 2010 Olympic Team Canada hockey program, who would be your roster?

Domo, I won't be. And without researching, I will do my best not to forget anybody, or put a foreign player on my list by mistake.

In goal- Roberto Luongo, Martin Brodeur, Carey Price
Defense- Chris Pronger, Scott Neidermayer (assuming he's still playing), Dion Phaneuf, Shae Webber, Dan Boyle, Ed Joviniski.
Forwards- Jarome Iginla, Sidney Crosby, Vincent Lecavalier, Dany Heatley, Shane Doan, Jordan Toews...

This is harder than I thought. Can I just trust Steve Yzerman to do a good job?

Hope it was as good for you the reader as it was for me the writer.

2 comments:

  1. Question for you... I recently got back with my boyfriend, we had been split up for about 4 maybe 5 months, and throughout the whole time I was being stubborn saying it didn't work when I knew inside I was missing something. Now as Christmas looms, I want to do something amazingly special for him, to show him how much I wish I didn't waste that time with him. Any ideas?

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  2. What can you do to give your kids a perfect Christmas? I can buy presents to spoil them, but I'd like to add to their understanding of what Christmas is.

    Help?

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