Comments on: Getting to be THAT guy

By: Dog training

Dog training — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:55:42 +0000

Very interesting… as always! Cheers from -Switzerland-.

By: Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 01:21:08 +0000

No, not really. I do get a lot of that but this is different. If you’re a CEO or in the position to speak for a company, the people who are asking things of you have already given something in return: Their money (or attention). If you want to keep it, you’re obligated to serve them.

By: Ator

Ator — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 16:40:03 +0000

So I take it this is your non-rant on people asking too many questions without offering anything in return?

By: amphibian

amphibian — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:11:41 +0000

I work at Home Depot to pay off my loans while gearing up for law school and helping my father keep his new business going. Today I listened to a man, who is responsible for ensuring deliveries come in and get to the right doorstops, go on for five highly passionate minutes about how Home Depot was fucking stupid for always going with the low bidder.

They save maybe 200 dollars a month on paper, but end up paying thousands in damages caused by shipping, abysmal service, and bad PR generated by dissatisfied customers. He was mostly bitching about how he had to take the hit for it, instead of the management who set up the whole thing in the first place. I asked if management would actually listen to him and he said “When pigs fly. That paper money is too important.”

Would you pay slightly more money for a product/ service with a greater chance of not having problems? This stupid shit is why mom and pop stores have a chance to surge back and grab some of that lost market share.

By: Art

Art — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:30:45 +0000

I read his book a while back… and hundreds after (so I don’t remember specifics); it resonated with me for a while, gave me a different perspective of planning if I remember correctly.

To be honest, if I remember correctly, it was more complicated than the level I was at, at that point-I was still more interested in reading Plato and Machievelli summarized than their originals. I’ve come a long way since then though. I’ll have to give it another read-probably buy it after seeing the man.

By: Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:26:49 +0000

Sean,

You can drop me an email about the books and we’ll go over them. Those are two of my favorites.

By: Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:21:09 +0000

Tell Michael I said hello. Have you read his book? It’s great. I’m still writing in my head–I do it on my Blackberry a lot too.

By: Art

Art — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:14:00 +0000

I’m just curious, with this kind of output are you still writing everything in your head as you run?

Thanks for mentioning Michael Raynor a while back btw, he’s attending my University to teach his strategies from his book, which should be very helpful towards what I want to create.

By: Sean McGrath

Sean McGrath — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:06:58 +0000

Hey Ryan, do you by any chance take requests?

I am just about to finish reading Fight Club and after that I plan on reading Viktor Frankl’s, Man’s Search For Meaning.

I would love to read what you have to say about them.

~Sean McGrath