Week 9

This week was about the small L leadership and a message to Garcia. 

I enjoyed the reading of a message to Garcia because I tried to relate that to myself and I currently have a manager that I really don't trust and have a hard time getting along with.  We have campaigns that we do that are like projects and have timelines with them with steps for each part of the campaign.  When we get his directions I tend to ask a lot of questions because there is a lot in my opinion that has not been though out. 

I thought of this article and if I could be more like this man and just go out and do what was asked and just get it done.  I think in some aspects of my job I am like this because I work very autonomously and very rarely ask my manager for help or direction because for the most part I have the sales process down and can act on what I know.

However I think there is plenty of things that I can do better on execution and following through to make things happen.  There are times where I have even given up because I have not understood how to do what has been asked.

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