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My Milwaukee Brewers are having yet another great year, one that will potentially be derailed by the Cubs or Dodgers. On Tuesday night, this happened (click here<\/a>).<\/span><\/div>\n

A rookie was benched in the fifth inning AFTER hitting a bloop single.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, Brewers fans derided the Manager for being a bit short-fused.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not me.<\/span><\/p>\n

He’s setting a Standard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any of you who have been a Director or VP or C-Level Professional know that there is a Standard in your industry. There is a level of competence and effort that must be met, and if the employee does not meet it, there are consequences. You cannot survive if your team does not meet the Standard. And you know what that Standard is, based on your career experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

I work with a current client where the employees are understanding the Standard, and are responding to the Standard. Their response is different than a year ago. I so enjoy working with them! The employees are growing!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

Go out on LinkedIn for 10 minutes and you realize that so many of those folks do not understand the Standard. No attention to detail. Just high-level thoughts. “I think Kohl’s has big problems with their relationship with Sephora<\/b><\/span><\/i>.” That’s brain-dead drivel. Do you know what counts? Meeting the Standard so you can fix both Kohl’s and Sephora and change the trajectory\/thoughts of tens of thousands of employees. That’s the Standard. How many people on LinkedIn are capable of doing that?<\/span><\/p>\n

Catalog Thought Leadership is just as bad. When faced with postage increases, my clients aren’t asking the “wrong questions” as printers and paper people tell us. My clients are meeting the Standard. They are benching Print for lazy performance and poor effort. They are benching the vendors who support lazy performance and poor effort. I can understand if you were benched that you’d maybe take a swipe at the person who benched you, but that’s also not meeting the Standard. Read what Cooper Pratt (the player who was benched) said in the article cited earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Standard = Discipline + Competence + Vision + Leadership + Communication.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

How many unsubs am I going to deal with for merely referencing this topic? And what does that say of the person unsubbing?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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