A Great Boss
You communicate what I need to accomplish
Your expectations, and what being great looks like
This helps me succeed and my career flourish
And feeds my inner motivations and psyche.
Having you to talk to is important to me
Sometimes I just need to vent
It is comforting that you don´t get angry
When I complain with good intent.
It is nice to win, to succeed, to prevail
In the face of Gibraltar sized barriers
Thanks for ensuring we do not derail
On the way to becoming performance leaders.
A great boss knows all these things
And makes team success a top priority
You make a difference and improve work´s meaning
And for that I thank you whole heartedly!
Your expectations, and what being great looks like
This helps me succeed and my career flourish
And feeds my inner motivations and psyche.
Having you to talk to is important to me
Sometimes I just need to vent
It is comforting that you don´t get angry
When I complain with good intent.
It is nice to win, to succeed, to prevail
In the face of Gibraltar sized barriers
Thanks for ensuring we do not derail
On the way to becoming performance leaders.
A great boss knows all these things
And makes team success a top priority
You make a difference and improve work´s meaning
And for that I thank you whole heartedly!
Business is War
Wars are fought with front-line troops
and business is war
Downsizing, a necessary flanking move
and then a bitter frontal assault
on corporate costs at any human cost
The machinery of business kills
easily as the weaponry of war
Supported, waged and justified on casualties
How could it, should it be another way
in an epic battle of commerce
and business is war
Downsizing, a necessary flanking move
and then a bitter frontal assault
on corporate costs at any human cost
The machinery of business kills
easily as the weaponry of war
Supported, waged and justified on casualties
How could it, should it be another way
in an epic battle of commerce
The war of business is planned, maps pinned
by old men, slogged and fought by young
Fresh troops from Harvard Business School
the West Pointe of lieutenants
skilled at slaughtering their troops
Medals won and generals from hell to here
have always used their infantry
unwisely at the best
without scruples at the worst
and this war is fought for market-share
by old men, slogged and fought by young
Fresh troops from Harvard Business School
the West Pointe of lieutenants
skilled at slaughtering their troops
Medals won and generals from hell to here
have always used their infantry
unwisely at the best
without scruples at the worst
and this war is fought for market-share
It's hard to follow a flag of pension trusts
and harder yet to take a bullet
on their behalf, pink slipped, eyes glazed
Withering fire, managers fall left and right
shipped home in coffins of despair
So stop your whining, straighten ranks
expect the losses, take it like a man
cannon fodder thins the ranks and vacancies
make for promotion up the grades
The few survive and damn the cost of many
and harder yet to take a bullet
on their behalf, pink slipped, eyes glazed
Withering fire, managers fall left and right
shipped home in coffins of despair
So stop your whining, straighten ranks
expect the losses, take it like a man
cannon fodder thins the ranks and vacancies
make for promotion up the grades
The few survive and damn the cost of many
Wars should be won or lost, yet some just stagger
undecided in a bloody hopeless standoff
But the troops come home as they always will
unsung, ungloried and mostly brutalized
Another generation shellshocked, whimpering at night
remembering friends
knowing their time's run out
So if some feel their country's turned its back
it's just the way of wars
and no monuments are ever built to battles lost.
undecided in a bloody hopeless standoff
But the troops come home as they always will
unsung, ungloried and mostly brutalized
Another generation shellshocked, whimpering at night
remembering friends
knowing their time's run out
So if some feel their country's turned its back
it's just the way of wars
and no monuments are ever built to battles lost.
http://www.praguewriter.com/poems/narrative-poems/business-is-war.htm
What is a complaint?
What’s a complaint, if not a cry for help
A signal that communicates a wish or hope
Complaints can be useful to bosses
Who are interested in preventing future losses
Of people, processes, time, and harmony
What’s a complaint, if not an idea cloaked
A bit of creativity waiting to be evoked
Complaints can become positive
For they mean communication is active
And it takes a conversation to change the world.
