Something I always find fascinating about Hamburg is that being a port city is its entire identity when it doesn't even sit on the North Sea it sits on a river and Hamburg is a massive port city too the 5th largest in europe
Saturday
Grabbed my laptop to check if the Amazon package I ordered shipped
Saw my analyst's green dot on Teams
Typed "plz fix" and nothing else
He responded in six seconds
"On it but which file?"
Read it
Didn't respond
Sent him a calendar invite for Monday at 7am
Subject line: "Updated Materials Walkthrough"
No agenda
No description
No materials
Nothing I'm aware of that needs to be fixed
He accepted in four seconds
Then he sent a follow-up: "Hey just saw this. Anything I should prep over the weekend?"
Didn't respond
Closed my laptop
My wife watched the whole thing from across the kitchen table
She asked what he did wrong
I said nothing
She stared at me for a long time
She asked why I do this
I said it builds character
She said "his or yours"
I didn't answer that one either
He will now spend his entire weekend rebuilding a model and deck that didn't need rebuilding
He will flag three errors I wasn't even aware of
I will cancel the meeting Sunday night at 11pm with no explanation
The deck will be better than the original
Fear is a leadership tool if you use it correctly
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My friend was making $1,800 as a DoorDash driver.
Struggling.
Could barely afford rent.
I analyzed his work.
He’d get paid $10 to deliver a burger.
Think bigger, I said.
What’s something more valuable that you can deliver?
After I helped him, he now makes $48,000 a month
Doing the same job
You see, he realized that what you deliver is more important than how you deliver it
He’s now one of the best cocaine dealers in the city
Proud of him