DID EVERYONE GET ON BOARD? DID YOU GET
100 PERCENT AGREEMENT TO ADOPT A POS
PERSPECTIVE?
My own experience is about 50 to 60 percent of the people, if you’re lucky, will get it pretty much out of the box. About 20 to 30 percent of the folks kind of sit on the sideline and say, ‘‘Is this just Jim’s management thing du jour?’’ About ten percent of the people will positively reject everything that I talk about. They will just say, ‘‘It doesn’t make any sense. Sorry, it’s not working for me.’’ And that’s okay. I don’t argue with them. They will be out of alignment with where we’re trying to drive the organization, and they should go to a place where they will be in alignment. I quickly encourage them to go there. I’ve done a lot of recruiting of both senior and middle level executives into our company in the last 18 months, and people want to join a positively oriented company, even if you’re asking them to accept the same or less pay. The younger the person is, the more true it is.