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employees (as i've noticed in philippine setting specially in big companies):

crab mentalality
->instead of making way from being average to being excellent, some employees think more about bringing an excellent employee down

can't handle confrontation
-> feel threatened when you confront (even talk nicely) 'em about their behavior or performance (negative) instead of taking them as cronstructive critism to improve themselves

insecure (simply don't have a life)
->troublemaker, gossiper, prejudice, jealous

CUT 'EM OFF!

*i believe all people got potential to be an excellent employees and big part depends on how you manage 'em
*in my personal experience, nothing makes me work harder than be praised by my boss even for the simple things i've done.
it makes me wanna prove myself more and just feel positive about things.
*at times when i feel like i can't do something or just simply being negative, knowing my boss believes in me more than i believe in myself makes me try really hard and make my boss proud.

Thanks for the advice and glad you are lovin' the show! Does a diet of Xanax count?

Dan, hope you're well and survived typhoon Conson.

Ian, save money on the supplements. No proof any of those work to lower BP (I'm a pharmacist). exercise + good diet + sleep is best medicine to stay off the meds…a nice massage every week doesn't hurt either.

Bang on!

Craig

Your points on hiring and keeping on the A players were really interesting. Also, about how a truly talented person will feed off of more talent, instead of feeling insecure and scared. In my last job this was a big problem. One of the people I worked for clearly was insecure about their skills and talent, so they went out of their way to do anything they could to keep people under them and their control. It sucked.

Great stuff. And Ian, good luck with the whole blood pressure thing, buddy! Keep popping those supplements, if you got them at Whole Foods they must be good right?

good luck with blood pressure, situation with kelsey

I heard a funny joke that might work for your section at the end…

“It was Independence Day, and a father asks his son, “Hey Billy, aren't you glad to be free?”

Billy responds, “I'm not FWEE! I'm FOUR!”

Hmm. Hope you enjoyed that one.

I love point one about not dissing your competition… this can also apply to personal life. Whenever someone starts talking smack about someone else, it fires alarm bells in my head and I generally stay far away from these people.

I “talk smack” with friends, but when it comes to actual competitors, I never find the need to talk bad about the competition…it's much easier just to be BETTER than them! =)

I'm in about 12 different client accounts all day and instead of using different browsers, I use the “incognito” browser mode for switching between different gmail accounts throughout the day. Works great.

Keep it up guys

Regarding Google and their targeted search results, you can bypass those results by using incognito mode in Chrome (or the equivalent in whatever browser). Your results will then come back without the preferences just like you were signed out.

Great post. I love that quote that average people push the talented ones out. I've seen it way too often and watched as average people become insecure. Worse is that I've yet to see even one place where the management was willing to lose the average person to keep the talented one. Sad. Awesome that you guys are aware of this as business owners and can be one of the places that looks for this!!!

As always, you guys are rocking it!!!